How Digg and Wikipedia use Linux for high availability
This entry was posted on Nov 15 2008
Pop quiz: you have a web site and you want it to be popular. It must scale to tens, hundreds of thousands, even millions of visitors. It has to be snappy and responsive. What server platform will you host it on? Here
’s what two of the world’s most popular sites – Wikipedia and Digg – went with, and it wasn’t Windows.