You'll notice to the left in my links section I have a link pointing to Anandtech. Anandtech is a hardware site ran by Anand Shimpi, who has been running the site for as long as I can remember. Over the years they have had to make many hardware and software changes, ranging from OS and software versions, to moving to clusters of servers to handle the load of their visitors. The latest move they made recently was to move their who site, forums and all, over to ASP.NET.  You can read about their migration process here.

Their old software was all written in ColdFusion, and it is interesting to note some of the system changes that moving to ASP.NET allowed them, although it is sad to see the code examples on their site are in VB.NET instead of C#.....

For their forums software, they are running 20-40ms page load times with ~1000 users online. With ColdFusion they needed 2 servers clustered to maintain this response time, with the move to ASP.NET they were able to reduce this to one server.

For the site itself, with the same hardware, the move to ASP.NET allowed them to server their pages in 15ms with more than 450 users on each server, which is 60-80ms faster than with the ColdFusion pages.

Very interesting read to say the least, head over there to read the rest, and say Hi to Anand for me...