ItsYourTurn.com is a play-by-play game website that I was turned onto several years ago by a colleague. Since I joined the free site in October 4th, 2002,I've played 2,286 games (although I'm sure you'll be delighted to know I've won 58.7% of the games I've played).
ItsYourTurn.com (IYT) runs on the Microsoft web stack - ASP.NET 2.0, SQL Server 2005, IIS 6.0 - and is run, full time, by Patrick Chu, two other developers, and a part time support staff. IYT has over 2.5 million registered accounts, a database with over 470 million active records, and records around four million page views per day.
Recently I interviewed Patrick, asking an array of technological and business-related questions. Patrick provided very in-depth and thought out answers, including information on IYT's hardware and hosting configuration, the motivation and rationale behind starting this business, his thoughts on AJAX, life during the dot com bubble, and his views on the future of web development.
You can read the interview on 4Guys, at A Conversation with Patrick Chu.
Enjoy!