A Little MySpace History 101

Sara, they started out w/ CF but quickly outgrew it (I'm not saying that CF doesn't scale well, I actually don't know much about CF) and switched to .Net, however they use extensive URL rewriting to maintain their old URL structure. There are quite a few pages over there w/ ASPX extensions as of late though, and all of it is asp.net  under the hood.

The MySpace guys gave an interesting talk at last year's Mix'06 conference during the keynote: http://sessions.mix06.com/view.asp?pid=KYN001 it starts about 20 minutes in.

I agree, and I wish they'd just go ahead and say "backwards compatibility be damned." They could actually keep the underlying URLs the same as the old CF ones, and then just have them forwarded to regular (shorter) aspx ones. Very simple to do with a small httpHandler...I've done it on several sites before if the URLs had to change.

That being said, they most definitely have their hands full as is. They will have to bite the bullet at some point though and rewrite IMO. You can only apply so many bandaids!