Posted by flamer die.spam@hotmail.com on 08/22/06 00:24

Roman wrote:

> Out of curiosity, anyone knows what does Ebay run on and how many servers ?
>
> The front-end page says "Java Technology, powered by Sun" in top-right
> corner. When you click, it reads: "eBay is Java™ Powered running on
> powerful Sun Fire UltraSPARC® and AMD Opteron™ servers ..."
>
> My browser gets the following headers, they seem to have mix of
> technologies:
>
>
> www.ebay.com
> Server: Microsoft-IIS/5.0
> Server: WebSphere Application Server/4.0
>
> include.ebaystatic.com
> Server: Microsoft-IIS/5.0
>
> pics.ebaystatic.com
> ??? (no server signature)
>
> srx.main.ebayrtm.com
> Server: Microsoft-IIS/5.0
> Cneonction: close (hmm, interesting)
> Server: Apache-Coyote/1.1
>
> us.ebayobjects.com
> Server: DCLK-AdSvr
>
> banners.ebaystatic.com
> Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0
>
> my.ebay.com
> Server: Microsoft-IIS/5.0
> Server: WebSphere Application Server/4.0
>
>
> --
> Roman Ziak
> DIPmicro Electronics
> www.dipmicro.com

Its all run on the one server, Win NT, 486 proc, 16mb sd ram, 6.4Gb
5400rpm ide hdd, content delivered by MS personal web server.

Flamer.

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