I noted in January that WhiteHouse.gov relaunched for the Obama administration using a closed source infrastructure (it was using ASP.NET on IIS 6.0) running a proprietary CMS.
It has now relaunched using open source Drupal. Also interesting is that it’s no longer broadcasting any headers regarding it’s server. Considering Drupal is by far [...]
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WhiteHouse.gov Goes Open Source
Sunday, October 25th, 2009 Posted in Mozilla, Open Source, Politics | 2 Comments »
Whitehouse.gov Analysis
A few notes on the new whitehouse.gov website as I did for the campaign sites after about 5 minutes of sniffing around:
Running Microsoft-IIS 6.0 and ASP.NET 2.0.50727. The Bush administration ran Apache on what I think was some sort of Unix. Data is gzip’d.
Whitehouse.gov is using Akamai as a CDN and for DNS [...]
Tuesday, January 20th, 2009 Posted in In The News, Internet, Politics | 5 Comments »