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OCD Support wrote:
> 
> I wasn't aware that Hotbot was running NT however I wasn't really looking
> neither..:)  I wouldn't say that Windows NT can't handle high loads of traffic...
> just not as much or as well as a good Apache server on FreeBSD...<smiles>
> 
> My guess is that they are running a large cluster of servers acting as one or via
> round robin DNS.
The story I heard (not sure where, maybe from webmonkey),
was that the IIS/NT combo is just a front-end as the
"clever" stuff has all been done in ISAPI/ASP. The actual
donkey work is performed by various back-end databases
serving the ASP's queries, not all necessarily running NT.

> 
> Paul
> 
> "Mark L. Holloway" wrote:
> 
> > How the heck is Hotbot running their entire search engine on a Windows NT 4/IIS
> > platform?  I thought NT couldn't handle that kind of traffic load...  Are they
> > using NT Enterprsie?  Or a special HAL from Microsoft maybe?
> >
> > Mark
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