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how does this site work..?

what is the trick behind the scenes here at EE, I mean how come all question are .htm files, how does it work and why is it like that..? would it be ASP equivalent if I do something like this?

write out entire and then set content type like so..?

> Response.ContentType = "text/html"
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"would it be ASP equivalent if I do something like this?" mean same as "would it be same in ASP if I do something like this?"
I asked same thing a while ago and I got this in response and I guess it does make sense

https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/21143159/Interested-in-the-way-that-this-site-works-with-database.html
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ok, I sent email to COBOLdinosaur, I guess he might know...
I also would like to know experts who built this site, see the  profiles at least...   :)
no wonder why it is so fast, if I'm not mistaken there are 10 individual servers just for EE..? is that what it means..?
http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph/?host=www.experts-exchange.com

and company behind EE hosts pretty interestning company's websites too
http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/hosted?netname=LC-ORG-ARIN,64.152.0.0,64.159.255.255
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that was great story, I'm sure everybody including myself truly enjoyed it, I have some questions though, you said " the question database; the comments database, and the members database."... are these three saparate servers with oracle database or something else...?
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thanks again
Glad we could help.  Thanks for the A. :^)

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Ditto, Thanks :o)
hi, finally I figured it out by using a custom HttpHandler in .NET and it's very cool, however there is still one thing which bugs me... at this website no matter how many comments you post and then click the browser's back button it doesn't display those posted pages, it skips them all like they never been there and takes you to right where you came from, how is this possible? I'll open onother question if anybody knows how
nevermind I got it, I used

HttpContext.Current.Response.Cache.SetAllowResponseInBrowserHistory(False)
Response.Redirect("to itself")