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StackOverflow is famous for running on-prem on bare metal Dell hardware: https://nickcraver.com/blog/2016/03/29/stack-overflow-the-ha...

Last time I checked, GitHub was also mostly on bare metal and cloud-free.

They launched in 2008, on a stack built around IIS because that was what their early devs were familiar with.

Is this supposed to be a bad thing?

StackOverflow does predate the AWS world takeover.

How is this relevant? Amazon.com also predates AWS.

The implication is that they had already solved these problems and redoing the stack has its own cost to consider.