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Stack overflow hosts all (most?) Of their own baremetal servers in their own data center. Looking at the specs of the machines, they are actually pretty basic
by dahfizz 7y ago
Stack overflow hosts all (most?) Of their own baremetal servers in their own data center.
Looking at the specs of the machines, they are actually pretty basic as far as servers go. A server isn't barely worth the cost of it's chassis and motherboard if you put less than 64 G ram and 24 CPUs in it.
In other words, these are about the lowest specd proper servers you can get. So yeah, even their modest hardware is still overspecd for running their website.
- latch 7y ago"Their own data center" implies (to me at least) that they built their own data center. That doesn't sound right, so I looked it up, and it seems like they're colocating. That might be what you meant, but the data centers they use certainly weren't built or owned by SO.