Re: UKNM: Thanks for a great response...

[Nick Sweeney]

> Over the last few days the TV ads have been driving the hit rate up and

> there have been some server problems (Microsoft blame this on 'Hackers',

> I'd value a second opinion!) but these are being ironed out as we speak.

> Over the next year functionality will increase as new products are

> launched. 


IIS isn't as scaleable as Apache. It doesn't, on average, cope as well

with heavy loads. And given the top-heavy front end, there's always likely

to be something of a logjam on launch.


(What's to "hack" in the egg.com site? There's no really sensitive stuff,

apart from the standard ::$DATA appendage to URLs as an attempt to access

the raw ASP code. If people accessing directory addresses rather than

pages is "hacking", then MS have a very different concept of the term to

me.)


But thanks, Tim, for taking such an open approach to responses.


Nick