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I recall reading an article, years ago, how stack overflow is ran off of the equivalent of like two on-prem servers that could take the load way better and far

I recall reading an article, years ago, how stack overflow is ran off of the equivalent of like two on-prem servers that could take the load way better and far more cheaply than an "enterprise cloud architecture" could. I thought it was an amazing example of how expensive it is to be in the cloud. I didn't think about the high availability benefits of the cloud... Think they still run off of a few servers or did they ever migrate to the cloud?

edmcnulty101 4y ago
Ive seen entire regions go down in AWS, Google, and Azure. I remember a single developer pushed some code and crashed all of Googles DNS a few years ago. Cloud is not all wine and roses but I still love it.
moreira 4y ago
> I didn't think about the high availability benefits of the cloud The cloud has outages too, though. If you've been here long enough you've seen plenty of cloud-related outages. The truth is, outages happen, on cloud or otherwise. They might've avoided this but they might've been hit by yesterday's AWS outage. [0] I don't think they'd gain much from migrating, and to the best of my knowledge they haven't. [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32267222 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32267222
warrenm 4y ago
I don't recall seeing anything in the last couple few years that indicated anything changed edit: https://stackoverflow.blog/2022/05/16/stack-under-attack-what-we-learned-about-handling-ddos-attacks/ https://stackoverflow.blog/2022/05/16/stack-under-attack-wha... sure sounds like it's still a handful of physical boxes :)