Sad Times Stackoverflow Takes Down All Its Physical Servers
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And if you throw away memory for PII concerns, that would be beyond crazy.
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.
How are all the cloud engineers going to solve their issues if Stackoverflow is down?
Great news for me! LOL.
Trashy site cannot disappear any sooner.