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StackOverflow is famous for running on-prem on bare metal Dell hardware: https://nickcraver.com/blog/2016/03/29/stack-overflow-the-hardware-2016-edition/ https:

by duhast 6y ago

StackOverflow is famous for running on-prem on bare metal Dell hardware: https://nickcraver.com/blog/2016/03/29/stack-overflow-the-hardware-2016-edition/ https://nickcraver.com/blog/2016/03/29/stack-overflow-the-ha... Last time I checked, GitHub was also mostly on bare metal and cloud-free.

whatshisface 6y ago
StackOverflow does predate the AWS world takeover.
- duhast 6y ago
  How is this relevant? Amazon.com also predates AWS.
  - skj 6y ago
    The implication is that they had already solved these problems and redoing the stack has its own cost to consider.
908B64B197 6y ago
They launched in 2008, on a stack built around IIS because that was what their early devs were familiar with.
- Nextgrid 6y ago
  Is this supposed to be a bad thing?