Under the Covers: Architecture at AnandTech and the Performance of ASP.NET
by Jason Clark on November 27, 2004 12:10 AM EST- Posted in
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The Forums get migrated
We've used FuseTalk for our discussion forums for a long time now, and it was music to our ears that they decided to port their product to ASP.NET. Implementing the new FuseTalk platform happened a few months ago and it went very well.To implement the new .NET version of FuseTalk, we had to include our ad tracking software into FuseTalk in order for us to serve and track ads within the forums. We accomplished this by using FuseTalk's include code, which allows you to include your own code in various places within the FuseTalk application. Essentially, FuseTalk inherits our ad tracking dll and we are able to call ads within the FuseTalk look and feel, and track them.
Performance-wise, the new .NET port of FuseTalk has worked extremely well for us. Our average page execution time is 20-40ms with approximately 1000 users online. We used to require 2 servers running at all times to get near that kind of page execution time, and now, we could run the entire forums off of one server easily.
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overclockingoodness - Sunday, November 28, 2004 - link
msva124 (#3 and #4): Are you stupid or something? What's wrong with telling us about the back-end of AnandTech? I guess you would call it "kissing your own ass" when AnandTech gets exclusive products, months before they are released in the market. You read the whole article, didn't you? You knew what the article was going to be about? Why in the hell did you read it you moron?By the way, Jason didn't call himself an architect. He meant that he will have new functionality to build into the website (which also means architect). It seems like you dropped out of school a little bit early. Why don't you go ahead and get your diploma and once you are educated, you can come discuss things with us.
I can't believe where these trolls come from. Are you just jealous that you can't even dream about some of the stuff AnandTech has? It's okay, go cry to your mommy.
Seriously, awesome work Jason. And please do another article soon as we call as see msva124 die of jealousy.
michaelpatrick33 - Sunday, November 28, 2004 - link
Gee msva124 I didn't realize that website creator(s) weren't allowed to talk about their own process. I guess you don't believe in people having their own personal websites and sharing anything about their own websites either. Great info and great job Jason and please keep informing us of your "architect" process for we know you are using the English language in a symbolic manner to rightly show your pride in your accomplishmentsmsva124 - Sunday, November 28, 2004 - link
And I love the way you call yourself an "architect".msva124 - Sunday, November 28, 2004 - link
Thankfully, not many other websites dedicate so much time to kissing their own asses.Marlin1975 - Saturday, November 27, 2004 - link
I think its Opterons, Quad maybe?JustAnAverageGuy - Saturday, November 27, 2004 - link
Nice summary :)Might be worth mentioning what kind of hardware you had for the scalability test.