MySpace.Com does .NET
- Aber Whitcomb, CTO, MySpace.com
- 65m registered members (#2 trafficed site on net, passing google, ebay, MSN)
- using SQL Server 2005 and ASP 2.0
- next-gen portal, social networking platform
- 9m members - converted to ASP.NET
- saw significant perf gains
- tool advantage of full OO
- 17M members - launched middle tier cache with ASP.NET
- 64bit asp.net, used huge amounts of ram, reduced server count
- 26M Members - SQL Server 2005 64Bit
- MySpace Home Profile page .NET 2.0 perf gains
- Reduced CPU usage from 85% to 27%
- Reduced web farm from 246 servers to 150
[1] Via Rob Burke: http://blogs.msdn.com/robburke/archive/2006/03/20/555626.aspx