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Apple.com now 'Powered by Mac OS X Server'

updated 12:08 pm EST, Sat December 16, 2000


A MacNN reader notes that www.apple.com now displays a "Powered by Mac OS X Server" badge, after the site was previously hosted on Sun Solaris running Netscape-Enterprise application server, according to a November Netcraft survey, which also lists the OS and server platform for many Apple.com subdomains. [The Webserver is Apache 1.3.9, according to httpver 1.1 , although the Netcraft survey engine is not currently running as of 11:00 am ET; oddly, Apple.com is not displaying the same badge.]


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    12/16, 12:38pm | report spam | Reply | delete

    I disagree

    I remember seeing that before. It just wasn't as big. I especially remember seeing it before they updated the layout about a year ago. I guess I could be seeing things, but I can almost be 100% sure...

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    Server pool

    It's just their load balancer. Depending on which of the web servers in Apple's server pool their front end load balancer sends you too, you may or may not see the badge. THey likely have a mix of the Sun servers and the MacOS X boxes.

    If you try reloading the page or going back to it later you might see the logo again, as I just now saw it again.

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    Server pool

    It's just their load balancer. Depending on which of the web servers in Apple's server pool their front end load balancer sends you too, you may or may not see the badge. THey likely have a mix of the Sun servers and the MacOS X boxes.

    If you try reloading the page or going back to it later you might see the logo again, as I just now saw it again.

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    12/16, 01:51pm | report spam | Reply | delete

    It's Mac OS X

    According to this, www.apple.com is running Mac OS X Server, but store.apple.com is running Netscape-Enterprise/3.6 SP3. Further, kbase.info.apple.com is running Apache/1.3.9 (Mac OS X Server, but I can't get a reading on www.info.apple.com. Maybe the migration is almost complete?

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    12/16, 02:03pm | report spam | Reply | delete

    *shrug*

    Apple runs all kinds of c***.. kbase.info.apple.com was running on Win2k for a while... what a better way to test cross-platform products such as WebObjects! Lots of WebSTAR boxes, and a few Appleshare IP boxes. Nice for StarNine..err..4D, and a good way to test ASIP stuff as well.

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    12/16, 02:22pm | report spam | Reply | delete

    not new

    apple has been using macos x for its main servers for at least a month and a half.

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    12/16, 04:25pm | report spam | Reply | delete

    big deal

    There was never any question that OS X - or more specifically, BSD Unix - could host an enterprise web site (or most any other network service). The real issue for Apple is being able to round up powerful enough hardware to run it on (a Sun E10k can take a lot more hits than a dual G4). Ironically, they'd probably best be able to do that right now by running Darwin on x86 hardware (in fact, I have no doubt there are OS X and OS X Server builds for specific x86 hardware sets running at Apple right now).

    A load balancer doesn't care what OS it forwards to, and Apache doesn't care what Unix it runs on (shrug).

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    hardware

    Apple has been using Sun Ultra 2's for a few years now. I agree G4's are good, but they'll never quite compare with the ability of Sun hardware. Three Ultra 2's have been all Apple has needed, but I imagine a whole RAIC of G4's running OS X will be required to achieve the same reliability.

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    Hardware

    Does this mean that Apple has some sort of large server running OSX? It would surely have to be an impressive G4 if it could handle such a frequently hit site as www.apple.com. Is there big server plans in Apple's future? Maybe a 5 foot Cube :-)

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    New software for check...

    You can find other software for know what software is running a web site..

    What.app

    http://homepage.mac.com/af_/dogbert.html

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