[OrangeMonkey]

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?

[moreira]

> 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

[warrenm]

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-wha... sure sounds like it's still a handful of physical boxes :)

[edmcnulty101]

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.