Irony with my Coffee
Oof, I kinda feel sorry for the Unofficial Apple Weblog once they recover, as you just know they're going to get mail about it. I'm actually giving them points, as you don't run an exposed Windows server by choice unless your Kung Fu is strong or your pair drags when you walk, and The Cow is constantly going on about his approval for both. Go easy.
Posted by drunkenbatmanAugust 16, 2005, at 07:56 AM
Comments (7)
Posted by: Small Paul at August 16, 2005 10:14 AM
Great fun, innit? Guess that's what happens when you're part of a Weblogs network: your client-side code slows Firefox to a crawl, and your server-side code crashes embarrassingly.
Posted by: sundoggy at August 16, 2005 12:47 PM
So what the hell is a mac site doing running on a Windows server?
Guess that's why they're unoffiicial.
Posted by: Mac-arena the Bored Zo at August 16, 2005 01:24 PM
TUAW is part of a large (the largest I've seen, anyway) conglomerate of weblogs called Weblogs, Inc. I think of them as sort of the ClearChannel of blogs, since they own a lot of blogs and a lot of them have a similar l—k and f—l. (Google 'MultiFinder "I want my"' if you don't get the reference.)
other Weblogs, Inc. blogs (there are over a hundred) include:
considering their size (you know how large companies can be) and their trait of having as many similar characteristics between blogs as they can get away with without being too obvious, it's not surprising to me that TUAW is running on a Windows server.
on a side note, I had meant to provide a link to the Google search mentioned above, but it wouldn't let me:
Your comment could not be submitted due to questionable content:
followed by the Google domain name. what's with that?
Posted by: drunkenbatman at August 16, 2005 03:53 PM
on a side note, I had meant to provide a link to the Google search mentioned above, but it wouldn't let me
Well, some spammer is hammering the site with google links, which is weird. Hundreds of them, so I can either sit there and delete them all over and over and over, or I can ban the domain until they cut it out. This happens with blogspot and such too, which annoys readers who use it but there's little to be done about it.
Posted by: Mindflayer at August 19, 2005 10:30 AM
I have the kung-fu. Several thousand hosts, all Windows, all on the Interweb with no firewall - ZERO ever owned. These were some of the highest traffic hosts out there, too.
KUNG FU MASTER! ;)
Posted by: mj1531 at August 19, 2005 12:19 PM
Hey Mindflayer,
You didn't mention if those Windows boxes were using Apache or IIS to serve those sites.
Also, could you give us some names of the sites you host? Anything we might have heard of?
yeah it sucks, i can't do without my TUAW :'(