Fortunately, the site's developers could draw on a large pool of talent for the content. To ensure its reliability and to give the company room for growth, they turned to Microsoft. Using the Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0, Enterprise Edition operating system with its new Windows NT Load Balancing Service (WLBS), along with other Microsoft products such as Site Server Commerce Edition, with its personalization capabilities, and the Microsoft Visual Studio® development suite, TVGuide.com has already blossomed into an immensely popular Web venue that complements the parent company's weekly magazine.
"The performance has been phenomenal," says Scott Carr, director of product support at the site's headquarters in Tulsa, Oklahoma. "We went online just days before the nationally televised TV Guide Awards show, and it spiked at six million hits just hours after the show started. Since then, we're garnering an average of 8 million to 10 million hits a day, without any downtime to speak of on the 10 Web servers we currently have in operation. Windows NT Server and the other Microsoft products have enabled us to create a Web site that is extremely reliable. It's highly scalable so it can grow as we do, and it is easy to customize for our audience."
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