ASP .Net - Scalability and Complex Computation

I recently came across this article about how Myspace handled scalability issues and at one point adopted ASP .Net framework which resulted in improvements in the site's performance. Pardon my ignorance, this came as a surprise to me because I never knew about ASP .Net being used in such big websites which routinely face heavy traffic and handle huge computation.

My Questions are, Is ASP .Net a good 开发者_C百科framework to use for such websites? Which other popular sites use ASP .Net framework?

This site was built in ASP.NET C#, for example. :)

The .NET framework is just as capable as any other framework. How well a site performs really depends on the developers putting it together.

I believe MySpace was first built with Cold Fusion, which is notoriously slow. I'm not surprised that they experienced performance gains after switching to .NET.

There are plenty. A good example is this very site you're on.

Of course, it's also up to how you design your site. No platform will make up for a bad design, but there's absolutely no reason why ASP.NET can't scale properly.

When it comes to that scale, it's mostly depending on infrastructure and a scaleable architecture. The major difference I think, and I say it from experience, if running in a windows environment, it often takes a "few" machines more than it would take if you we're running i.e. *nix. But hey, theres always Mono!

Quoted High Scalability:

"Their system had " “hundreds of hacks to make it scale that no one wants to touch," which hamstrung their ability to really compete."

And:

"Because of their infrastructure MySpace can’t change their technology to make new features work or make dramatically new experiences."

http://highscalability.com/blog/2011/3/25/did-the-microsoft-stack-kill-myspace.html