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So basically, through careful engineering, they can run stackoverflow.com, one of the top-ten sites in the world, on a single web server and a single database s
by Joeri 10y ago
So basically, through careful engineering, they can run stackoverflow.com, one of the top-ten sites in the world, on a single web server and a single database server. Beefy machines for sure, but it kind of takes the air out of the web-scale hype balloon.
- toomuchtodo 10y agoPhysical servers they host themselves, mind you.
- brianwawok 10y agoYa I love this as a counterpoint to much scaling. Stackoverflow has pretty good uptime and pretty good performance, can't fault the end result.
- mrep 10y ago> one of the top-ten sites in the world 49th actually: http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/stackoverflow.com http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/stackoverflow.com