What nine of the world’s largest websites are running on
August 22, 2007
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We used some of the data from High Scalability to create a table with the OS, web server, scripting language and database used by nine of the largest websites in the world.
The ones we selected were Flickr, YouTube, PlentyOfFish, Digg, TypePad, LiveJournal, Friendster, MySpace, Wikipedia.
Quick Overview
OS: Linux 7 - Windows 2
Web server: Apache 7 - IIS 2 - Lighttpd 2
Scripting: PHP 4 - Perl 4 - ASP.NET 2 - Python 1 - Java 1
Database: MySQL 7 - SQL Server 1 (possibly 2)