Shaun Walker on .NET Rocks!
It’s always good to hear from the man himself. Here are some interesting tidbits from Shaun’s second appearance on DNR.
- The National Rugby League is running DNN on a large web farm. Looks like the site has been featured on the DNN showcase for about a year. How did I miss that one?
- I was happy to hear NYSEData.com mentioned on the show since we’ve developed the skin for the site (shameless plug intended :)
- This is not DNN related, but it still struck me. How come people sometimes refer to hosting companies as ISPs? For me Internet Service Providers are companies such AT&T, Comcast, Verizon and so on. Almost anybody can put up a web hosting business; you don’t need to own the “pipes.” Or am I totally off here?
- According to Shaun, the commercial DNN ecosystem generates about $2 million today and is forecasted to grown 10 fold over the next few years. I’m not sure how these numbers were generated, but it’s amazing nevertheless.
- The question of what does DotNetNuke NOT do, meaning when is it NOT appropriate to utilize DNN and start a site from scratch instead, came up and Shaun scrambled for words for a minute, but he cleverly regrouped.
- And lastly, I was surprised to learn that dotnetnuke.com itself was only running on two dedicated boxes (one web server and one database server). For some reason I always imagined at least a small web farm behind the site. Very interesting.
Listen to the show here. I also recommend any show on ASP.NET, especially the ones with the father of ASP.NET Scott Guthrie.
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