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ocosteron How Stack Overflow upgraded from Windows Server 2012

They are in the process of migrating to .NET core, which runs on Linux.

Wether they choose to move to linux is a different matter.

ocosteron How We Make Money at Stack Overflow

Web Server: IIS, Database: SQL Server, Web framework (backend): ASP.NET/MVC. Additionally: Redis, Elasticsearch, HAProxy (all on Linux). jQuery on the front end (with some TypeScript) and LESS -> CSS.

ocosteron How We Make Money at Stack Overflow

You may be gone, but not forgotten, never that, Jeff :)

ocosteron How We Make Money at Stack Overflow

And the Data Explorer (use SQL in the browser to query the Stack Overflow database): http://data.stackoverflow.com

ocosteron How We Make Money at Stack Overflow

Did you know that we provide the complete set of questions and answers (from all sites, including Stack Overflow)?

No need to crawl anything.

You can find it on the internet archive:

https://archive.org/details/stackexchange

ocosteron How We Make Money at Stack Overflow

What you are missing is that there is a cost associated with monetizing the full inventory with automation.

You lose control over what is being shown, you are diluting your brand and you are at risk of alienating your users.

At Stack Overflow we are not willing to make this trade off.