What's wrong with that? The 2.x series started off badly with security vulns every other day. Even now, there's no compelling business case for sites running stable software like apache 1.3 to upgrade.
Furthermore, the sensible upgrade path is to dedicated app servers behind a light weight reverse proxy (varnish, nginx etc).
Will Slashdot Upgrade? (Score:4, Insightful)
Re: (Score:3, Informative)
Dear god, I hoped you were joking.
Slashdot's running on 1.3.41.
Re:Will Slashdot Upgrade? (Score:5, Funny)
Dear god, I hoped you were joking.
Slashdot's running on 1.3.41.
This was obviously a joke. Slashdot is still run by a mess of perl scripts. They've yet to drag themselves into early last decade.
Re: (Score:2, Informative)
Dear god, I hoped you were joking.
Slashdot's running on 1.3.41.
This was obviously a joke. Slashdot is still run by a mess of perl scripts. They've yet to drag themselves into early last decade.
It seems you are both correct, slashdot is hosted by Apache 1.3.41 and perl:
[12:33:43][me@me]/$ telnet www.slashdot.org 80
Trying 216.34.181.48...
Connected to www.slashdot.org.
Escape character is '^]'.
HEAD / HTTP/1.0
HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
Server: Apache/1.3.41 (Unix) mod_perl/1.31-rc4
Location: http://slashdot.org/ [slashdot.org]
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
Content-Length: 297
Date: Thu, 04 Feb 2010 06:35:42 GMT
X-Varnish: 785915486 785915484
Age: 0
Connection: close
Re: (Score:1)
You mean, as opposed to a mess of ruby or python?
Re: (Score:2)
No, as opposed to PHP! /fear
Re: (Score:1, Interesting)
What's wrong with that? The 2.x series started off badly with security vulns every other day. Even now, there's no compelling business case for sites running stable software like apache 1.3 to upgrade.
Furthermore, the sensible upgrade path is to dedicated app servers behind a light weight reverse proxy (varnish, nginx etc).
Re: (Score:1, Funny)
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
can't be more disturbing than this.