The BBC News website was started in 1997, but a system for reporting in real time which stories were proving most popular had yet to be invented. The BBC wanted a dynamic system, working in real time, which would give audiences a real sense of the news stories on the website being picked up most by other users. The challenge was to balance a demand for high performance with value for money on a limited budget. The BBC's solution was to develop the 'BBC News Live Stats' system in-house, supported by an open source software stack consisting of Apache web servers, Linux as the operating system and the MySQL database for data management.
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