Interesting to see one of these Architecture blog posts for a site running on the .Net framework.<p>Does 9.5-10 Million hits a day make them the largest .Net backed site?
I found it curious that there is so much hardware that is at around 20% utilization. Wouldn't it be better to have less hardware with higher utilization and buy cheaper/better hardware later if warranted?
This is a nice overview.
The article mentions database pairs for the MSSQL servers. What high availability mode is used, database mirroring or cluster?
Could someone clarify this: the post says that the servers are in _our_ Data Center in NY and OR. I have always thought that DCs host 100s to 100,000 machines! Is this a colo?<p>EDIT: What is the typical network utilization for such web-services?