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A Peek Behind the Curtain at Myspace

Markus links to a video of Myspace CTO talking about how they pay billg a lot of money to run the site on ASP.NET. When they had 65 million users, 250 servers were used to just serve up the homepage! The performance gains cannot be denied, but still, I think most of...

GPLDate, New Dating Site Software

Several times a week people ask me to recommend which dating site software or platform is “the best.” Being that I am not a developer, I point people to the Tools area as a good starting point and let them come to their own conclusion, hopefully with a...

Myspace DNS Poisoned?

Sysadmins and those in the know, what is wrong with this picture? % dig myspace.com … ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;myspace.com. IN A ;; ANSWER SECTION: myspace.com. 85833 IN A 216.178.32.50 myspace.com. 85833 IN A 216.178.32.51 myspace.com. 85833 IN A 127.0.0.1...