How many high traffic public sites are built using ASP.NET?

Question

This is really a two-part question. First of all, I just wanted to know how common asp.net is in the real world?

Secondly, I just want to know what is a read script in relation to scaling an asp.net site? http://highscalability.com/ almost never talked about asp.net stacks. Does anyone have any article on the reason that talks about how to scale an asp.net application?

Thanks.

Answer 1

I don't have numbers, but based on the number of .net questions, so I would say this quite often. For your second question, see http://highscalability.com/plentyoffish-architecture

Answer 2

MySpace uses ASP.NET ( source ). Lots of great sites. However, I would ignore the Many Fish example. From my recollection of the stories I read about, they just use the HttpHandlers for output, generally skipping Webforms stuff. You could probably get Webforms to scale, at least you absolutely need to. The most popular frameworks can handle high load, it depends only on the code and who writes it. Anyone can program the site in any framework that will not scale, but not vice versa.

As for scaling, the most important thing is caching, caching, caching. All large caching sites are widespread. Facebook has thousands of caching-only servers. This is only the beginning, but.

Answer 3

Yes asp.net is used in the real world. I am following how Stackoverflow was created since I first heard about it a year ago, and removed many lessons. After stackoverflow will scale in the future as their demand grows, it’s quite interesting, and they make most of their information public. Plus the podcasts are fun :)

Answer 4

It is difficult to say how widespread ASP.NET is in the world, but I think it is very common compared to PHP, Java and other server technologies. And I am convinced that ASP.NET is as scalable as anything you try.

If you do not think of the starting point for reading ASP.NET performance, you can take a look at Chapter 6 of the P&P book Improving the Performance and Scalability of .NET Applications. This is from 2004, so it may be a bit dated.

To give a couple of examples of high-traffic sites running on ASP.NET, you just need to look at http://www.microsoft.com/ or /fooobar.com / .... if your site is smaller than this (and probably this), scalability will not be a big problem. You should probably worry more about writing supported code.

Answer 5

Many fish with approximately 1.2 billion page views / month

Answer 6

More than 9000.

I actually came across a lot of high traffic sites StackOverflow as an example using ASP.NET

One thing that is useful for high scalability is the ability to add more servers if necessary, and still maintain the current session using various ASP.NET session state technologies.