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Stack overflow uses IIS??

Yes, I believe it was built using the .NET framework.

Built on asp.net MVC http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/09/what-was-stack-overflo...

Yes and it really showed in the beginning: they had lots of issues and you could constantly see the cat saying "sorry, i am wurkin' on fixin' yer problem" (don't remember the exact msg but it was a lolzcat message).

SO is also hardly something impressive from a UI point of view: it is a very simple UI really not doing much. Usenet readers from 20 years ago were way more capable than SO...

What does IIS have to do with the UI, exactly? It's just a web server.

The site's UI is simple and yet the server still can't handle it perhaps was the implication.

I'm not seeing a direct connection between UI simplicity and server capability. I can serve a hideously complex UI with a very minimal demand on the server. Demand on the server is much more about actual traffic, not the UI being rendered in the browser.

Other sites built with IIS & MVC - http://stackoverflow.com/a/12006474/10941

monster.com, break.com, ancestry.com, wildtangent.com, kbb.com, redbox.com , nordstrom.com , townhall.com, tunein.com, g4tv.com

Don't blame the framework, blame the developers.

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