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.
I have no doubt whatsoever you know about Wikipedia and an introduction is probably unnecessary. This is a comprehensive online encyclopaedia that is freely editable, which ensures currency of content while also being controversial for potential abuse.
Wikipedia is rated by Alexa as having a traffic rank of 8. Alexa is an independent website monitoring company who provide site ranking information based on a variety of sources over a rolling three month period. Primarily, they measure the number of individual pages visited by individual people.
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