Re: ASP.NET and IIS

["Joe Pluta" <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> From: Walden H. Leverich
>
> > It's also, from what I read, not particularly stable, but
> > that's hearsay.
>
> Depending on what you mean by stable it's not really even hearsay.

Not sure what you mean by that, but you can read about MySpace's scaling
travails here:

http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=4308

That in turn points to another article.  There are some really interesting
points made there, including this:

"The longer-term solution was to move to a virtualized storage architecture
where the entire SAN is treated as one big pool of storage capacity, without
requiring that specific disks be dedicated to serving specific
applications."

Heeee!  Can you say "single-level store"?

But more troubling is this: "These days, MySpace seems to be perpetually
overloaded, according to Shawn White, director of outside operations for the
Keynote Systems performance monitoring service. 'It's not uncommon, on any
particular day, to see 20% errors logging into the MySpace site, and we've
seen it as high as 30% or even 40% from some locations,' he says. 'Compare
that to what you would expect from Yahoo or Salesforce.com, or other sites
that are used for commercial purposes, and it would be unacceptable.' On an
average day, he sees something more like a 1% error rate from other major
Web sites."

Joe