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avocado4 on July 2, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Google Cloud networking issues in us-east1

How can Stack Overflow run on a single server? Do you mean single cluster?

davedunkin on July 2, 2019 [–]

As of 2016, Stack Overflow ran on dozens of servers in two data centers.

https://nickcraver.com/blog/2016/03/29/stack-overflow-the-ha...

dataflow on July 2, 2019 | [–]

Also interesting what their minimum requirements were in 2014 :https://nickcraver.com/blog/2013/11/22/what-it-takes-to-run-...

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