[Joeri]

So basically, through careful engineering, they can run stackoverflow.com, one of the top-ten sites in the world, on a single web server and a single database server. Beefy machines for sure, but it kind of takes the air out of the web-scale hype balloon.

[brianwawok]

Ya I love this as a counterpoint to much scaling.

Stackoverflow has pretty good uptime and pretty good performance, can't fault the end result.

[mrep]

> one of the top-ten sites in the world

49th actually: http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/stackoverflow.com

[toomuchtodo]

Physical servers they host themselves, mind you.