Sad times StackOverflow takes down all its physical servers
33 points by slroger
by slroger
1 subcomments
Very sad that StackOverflow which was one of the best examples of self hosted infrastructure is now unracking and decommissioning all of its hardware.
by p2detar
1 subcomments
> For security reasons (and to protect the PII of all our users and customers), everything was being shredded and/or destroyed. Nothing was being kept.
Wow! That’d sure be some waste of disk drives and memory. Do they destroy it themselves or some contractor does this?
by jsiepkes
0 subcomment
> We’ve since moved all our sites to the cloud. Our servers are now cattle, not pets
Because if you host your own servers and infra they are automatically pets? Seems like a weird statement. I think that phrase was even coined before cloud became really big.
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