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by pests 3998 days ago
Voat runs a modified version of the reddit open source code.
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thaw12 3998 days ago
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

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pests 3997 days ago
I think I stand corrected. Thanks.
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pixl97 3997 days ago
Trying to grow a site to Reddits size on IIS? That won't end well.
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mcintyre1994 3997 days ago
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?

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davidgerard 3997 days ago
It's possible to scale, but you have to think about scaling ahead of time. Voat actually didn't and are now scrambling.
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pests 3997 days ago
While totally forgetting sites like StackOverflow use IIS.
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davidgerard 3997 days ago
No, it's a clone, written from scratch in C#.
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