While surfing the Internet, I accidentally came across
this post, in the comments to which the notorious
ScottGu revealed some statistics on the ASP.NET main site.
So,
www.asp.net :
2 web servers and 2 database servers. On one database server there are blogs and forums, on the second - everything else.
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2 web servers serve:
- 120 million page views per month
- 2400 forum posts daily
- Over 500 blogs with over 1 million RSS subscriptions
Maintaining a full range of sites on the Microsoft web platform (www.asp.net,
www.iis.net ,
www.silverlight.net ,
www.windowsclient.net ) costs more than a million dollars a year, with most of the costs for suppliers content (original articles, tutorials, screenshots and various video content). In addition, technical costs (development, support for wiki / blogs / forums, 24/7 job security, design work), and traffic payment (several terabytes per day).
Such is the kitchen.