[omni]

I have yet to even see what Voat looks like because every time there's a Reddit event and someone mentions it, Voat is completely unresponsive.

[pests]

Voat runs a modified version of the reddit open source code.

[thaw12]

Wait, I thought it ran on a completely different codebase? It's hung from an ASP.NET framework running on an IIS server.

https://github.com/voat/voat

[pests]

I think I stand corrected. Thanks.

[pixl97]

Trying to grow a site to Reddits size on IIS? That won't end well.

[mcintyre1994]

I think stackexchange are still running on IIS so it's probably close to doable - although I imagine they have some seriously smart people and resources way beyond what Voat will in the near future.

That said, does Azure play nicely with IIS? I bet it's expensive but can you scale that way maybe?

[davidgerard]

It's possible to scale, but you have to think about scaling ahead of time. Voat actually didn't and are now scrambling.

[pests]

While totally forgetting sites like StackOverflow use IIS.

[davidgerard]

No, it's a clone, written from scratch in C#.