Sad times StackOverflow takes down all its physical servers

Sad times StackOverflow takes down all its physical servers(stackoverflow.blog)

62 points by slroger 144 days ago | 11 comments

slroger 144 days ago |

Very sad that StackOverflow which was one of the best examples of self hosted infrastructure is now unracking and decommissioning all of its hardware.

rzerowan 143 days ago | |

With the sadder realisation from the article that more independent co-lo facilities are getting shutdown leaving many largescale deployments withno recourse but to go to the cloud for hyperscale. As a business at least in the US , im not seeing any greeenfield facilities being spun up to compete with the big5(Oracle/Google/Azure/Amazon/IBM) clouds.

tstrimple 143 days ago | | |

A number of cloud migrations I've worked on are due to these reasons. If you're the second largest customer at a colo, and the largest is pulling all of their equipment out, chances are the colo won't be around much longer and you need to start getting proactive. Some of the companies are on very tight migration timelines because the colo announced they are closing down and were caught flat footed.

p2detar 143 days ago |

> 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?

exceptione 143 days ago | |

I don't like it. Giving away or selling the components for free would have been better than just throwing it at the dump. I appreciate the PII concerns, but these days disks have built-in sanitation procedures, as part of an industry-wide program to reduce waste.

And if you throw away memory for PII concerns, that would be beyond crazy.

jsiepkes 143 days ago |

> 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.

mindslight 143 days ago | |

Many cattle have names and given that it takes a bunch of cloud instances to do what a small menagerie of self-hosted servers can do, I'd say a better analogy is an infestation of rats.

amai 143 days ago |

So now Stackoverflow will also go down if the cloud is down: https://www.thousandeyes.com/blog/aws-outage-analysis-octobe...

How are all the cloud engineers going to solve their issues if Stackoverflow is down?

exceptione 143 days ago | |

I first laughed, then I realized that some of those indeed will bump into an extra surprise. Luckily, all the chatbots have a copy of SO.

ChrisArchitect 143 days ago |

Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44612736

moralestapia 143 days ago |

Sad?

Great news for me! LOL.

Trashy site cannot disappear any sooner.