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

[Stefan Magdalinski]

Nick Sweeney wrote:

> 

> > 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.


Frankly, 'hackers' as an excuse begs many more questions. poor server

performance is fixable. hackers, on the other hand, demands screaming

down the phone asking them 1)WTF do they think they're talking about, 2)

how can they be dismissive about it, 3) what are they doing about it? 


If what you say is true, I'm shocked. 


stefan


> (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


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