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There has to be some price tag associated with running Stack Overflow, but I wonder if it's within the range of something a collective could manage. More and m
by mrweasel 11mo ago
There has to be some price tag associated with running Stack Overflow, but I wonder if it's within the range of something a collective could manage.
More and more I think we need volunteer projects running the things we depend on the most. Community driving email, forums, social networks and Q&A sites like Stack Overflow. A community driven Stack Overflow could still run a job board, or have the C# section be "Sponsored by Microsoft", or run a Jetbrains ad. If you only have to pay for hosting, then you need less ad revenue.
- immibis 11mo agoStack Overflow famously ran on a half-rack of servers, duplicated in two locations for redundancy. This stopped when they got acquired by a cloud company - they were moved into the cloud. But it's clearly both possible and not too expensive. I see prices around me for $500-ish/month for half-rack colo. Of course you have to bring your own servers if using this option.