A startling discovery about the forum host

[Albi]

Greeting, I typed an invalid directory trying to visit the forum, and was greeted with this error message:
http://img518.imageshack.us/img518/1691/iistm4.jpg

It seems the Ubuntu forums are running on IIS! I don't know what to say, I'm speechless.

Don't believe me? Type this in your browser window. http://ubuntuforums.org/%5C

[Lucifiel]

Well, I bet the forum host is not owned by Canonical. It's probably a paid account and thus, the issue of the o/s is out of the hands of Canonical.

[siimo]

Ubuntuforums runs ubuntu according to netcraft.
http://toolbar.netcraft.com/site_report?url=www.ubuntuforums.org


The forum software they are using might have customized its 404 to look like IIS :lolflag:

[siimo]

Well, I bet the forum host is not owned by Canonical. It's probably a paid account and thus, the issue of the o/s is out of the hands of Canonical.

http://toolbar.netcraft.com/site_report?url=canonical.com

Canonical runs on ubuntu too!

[ButteBlues]

Greeting, I typed an invalid directory trying to visit the forum, and was greeted with this error message:
http://img518.imageshack.us/img518/1691/iistm4.jpg

It seems the Ubuntu forums are running on IIS! I don't know what to say, I'm speechless.

Don't believe me? Type this in your browser window. http://ubuntuforums.org/%5C
That's vBulletin's default 404 message.

[Polygon]

how does that prove that ubuntuforums.org is running on iis?

[grte]

It doesn't. As was mentioned, that's a vBulletin thing, not a IIS thing.

[rai4shu2]

What's more startling is the domain name registrar:

"Sponsoring Registrar:Go Daddy Software, Inc."

[bapoumba]

Thread moved to "Forum Feedback & Help".

[PriceChild]

That is the default vb error page.

UbuntuForums.org is running on Ubuntu servers provided by Canonical.

(until you hear otherwise from ubuntu-geek)