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Re:Is a billion dollars worth of server lying on the ground? by duhast on Monday November 02, 2020 @10:08AM (#24968861)
StackOverflow is famous for running on-prem on bare metal Dell hardware: 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.

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Re:Is a billion dollars worth of server lying on the ground? by 908B64B197 on Monday November 02, 2020 @12:43PM (#24970771)
They launched in 2008, on a stack built around IIS because that was what their early devs were familiar with.
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Re:Is a billion dollars worth of server lying on the ground? by Nextgrid on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @12:47AM (#24976754)
Is this supposed to be a bad thing?
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Re:Is a billion dollars worth of server lying on the ground? by whatshisface on Monday November 02, 2020 @10:23AM (#24969024)
StackOverflow does predate the AWS world takeover.
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Re:Is a billion dollars worth of server lying on the ground? by duhast on Monday November 02, 2020 @10:34AM (#24969185)
How is this relevant? Amazon.com also predates AWS.
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Re:Is a billion dollars worth of server lying on the ground? by skj on Monday November 02, 2020 @11:44AM (#24970038)
The implication is that they had already solved these problems and redoing the stack has its own cost to consider.
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