FW: Large sites using PHP

Dear PHP gurus: I've been following here the ever-growing-never-to-be-stopped discussions related to the largest sites using PHP. Apparently, most of the PHP developers are trying to convince their bosses to use Open Source language PHP instead of other 'silly' commercial solutions those 'brains' have in mind. It is just happened to me to be asked the same thing on a meeting with one of our clients. Therefore I have composed a dirty list of sites you all were posting during the time. I've done no research on this at all. My work consisted only in organizing your comments into one single resource. The forwarded email below is what I came up with. Please, who cares, update this list and perhaps even make it available to public online. Could be a good idea to have such resource running somewhere. I will definitely create a section for it on PHPBeginner.com and another portal I am planning to open soon. All of you are welcome to contribute and/or to reproduce it on your own sites. Thanks all, hope it's helpful. Regards, Maxim Maletsky www.PHPBeginner.com -----Original Message----- From: Maxim Maletsky [mailto:maxim@maxim.cx] Sent: Saturday, August 18, 2001 2:30 PM To: Terrie ***** Subject: Large sites using PHP Terrie, On the meeting we had last Thursday you asked me about the large sites that use PHP. I have composed a small list of such sites. Here it goes: www.sourceforge.net (30 millions pv/month) www.audiogalaxy.com (Napster follow-up, dozens of millions per/month) http://livebid.amazon.com (a part of Amazon.com, bet has a good traffic) http://mp3.lycos.com (One of the largest MP3 search engines in the world by Lycos. Their traffic but must be measured in several dozens of millions pv/mon) http://xoom.com (a huge online multi-service site. the #1 competitor to GeoCities) www.capitalone.com (well known credit card company) www.ecrush.com (14 million hits a month on avg) www.bangable.com (4 million page views a month. All PHP/mySQL) www.amdmb.com (uses MySQL and PHP for everything. 5 million pages/mon) www.insight.com (is a publicly traded fortune 1000 company. The site is 90% PHP) www.ig.com.br (the 3rd largest Brazilian portal) www.goeureka.com.au/super.php (AltaVista in Australia) www.kinderstart.com (Major children's portal. PHP and mySQL and some Perl.) www.marketplayer.com (provides the real-time stock market simulations for sites like etrade.com and smartmoney.com that have these games) www.dc.com (Deloitte Consulting) www.dialpad.com (user registration and member backend is PHP driven) www.thewb.com (uses PHP for the interactive areas such as message boards, polls, etc.) also: www.nbci.com www.sprint.ca www.ElectronicArts.com www.f2s.com www.indy500.com www.planetsourceocde.com www.easydns.com www.admworld.com www.communityconnect.com www.viant.com www.chek.com Some say that also HP, IBM, and even Mr. Microsoft run "some" Apache/PHP servers (looking it up on Netcraft.com--use their OS vendors search) Here is the link to a related discussion on PHP developers mailing list archive: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=99616558100011&w=4&r=1 ** All this data was composed from the posts of respectable developers on the international PHP mailing list. ** Sincerely, Maxim Maletsky Founder, Chief Developer PHPBeginner.com (Where PHP Begins) maxim@phpbeginner.com www.phpbeginner.com