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Stack Overflow servers and tech stack
Here is an interesting graph from Stack Overflow blog from 2009. They had 500k pageviews per day with an average download speed of 4 Mbit/sec or 512 KB/sec and around 1.5TB of bandwidth per month. Their first website design can be found on Wayback Machine here.
More info about their servers and tech stack since 2009, can be found here:
https://meta.stackexchange.com/posts/10370/revisions
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I was there, three thousand years ago 🧝
Looks like their server supports maximum of 8GB of ram, and has a very slow CPU to our current standards.
And yet, we have posts like "what do you guys do with so little RAM".
In the early days of Stack Overflow the website had peculiarly low load times, faster than other common websites at that time. It was noticeable.
Now it takes 15 seconds to load anything on Stack Overflow.