Ο νέος ιστοχώρος του Bill Gates τρέχει πραγματικά σε Linux;

Sometimes tips come in that seem too good to be true. Take today, for example. I got a tip that Bill Gates' new site, The Gates Notes, was running on a Linux-powered server. This would be ironic since Gates is of course the founder of Microsoft, which is Linux's biggest competitor in the server market. It would be the equivalent of catching Gates or CEO Steve Ballmer being caught using (and not just signing) a MacBook at a conference. So is it true? A quick search on Netcraft shows that thegatesreport.com sure enough looks to be running on the Linux OS. But wait. The results also say that web server is Microsoft-IIS/7.0. That doesn't sound right, so what gives? Well, it turns out that because Gates is using Akamai to mirror his sites' content in the event of massive traffic (or more specifically, something like a DDoS attack), this data is being filtered through there. Akamai uses Linux for its servers, so that's what OS is being passed back to Netcraft. But at the same time, to make things more confusing, the Akamai servers are still passing back the correct server header for Gates' site: Microsoft-IIS/7.0.