Handling 1.5 Billion Page Views Per Day Using ASP.NET 2.0

One of the highlights for me at the MIX conference earlier this week was being able to chat with customers about the success they’ve had with sites they’ve built on top of ASP.NET 2.0 and IIS 6.

MySpace.com was definitely the biggest highlight. For those that aren’t familiar with MySpace.com, it is the fastest growing site on the Internet right now. They have 65 million registered subscribers, and are registering 260,000 new users each day. According to the Media Metrix report (an independent analyst firm) MySpace.com had more page views in February than all of the MSN and Google sites combined. That is some serious load.

They re-built and re-deployed their site on ASP.NET 2.0 shortly after Microsoft shipped last year. Some of the pretty amazing statistics Aber and Allen (the MySpace CTP and VP of Engineering who were both in BillG’s keynote session) shared at MIX about the MySpace.com site:

• MySpace.com is now processing 1.5 Billion page views per day
• MySpace.com handles 2.3 million concurrent users during the day
• MySpace.com’s average server CPU utilization went from 85% to 27% after moving (from another technology) to ASP.NET 2.0