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What it takes to run Stack Overflow

by JonoW on 11/22/13, 3:48 PM with 9 comments

• by wil421 on 11/22/13, 4:38 PM

  I am interested to find out why they use MS products over something on linux combined with other open source options.

• by mathattack on 11/22/13, 4:29 PM

  I'd be interested to learn more about how they analyze the data too. Managing page requests on the web is very important. But they're also left with an enormous social graph of usage and expertise. I'd be interested in what their setup is for that.

• by k__ on 11/22/13, 3:50 PM

  "Now that we know how Stack Overflow performs on its current hardware, next time we can see why we don’t run in the cloud."

  inb4 "because we're running mainly on MS software"

  ;)

  -- edit --

  why the down-votes? I read about other websites, like POF, who run on MS software and their server-architecture is monolithic, too. The time I read about it, the page run on 2 big Xeon machines.