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thirsteh on March 5, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Stack Overflow: How we upgrade a live data center

> I thought the answer to that question was to scale up if you can, because its much simpler and therefore cheaper

✱cough✱ SQL Server licensing fees ✱cough✱

bri3d on March 5, 2015 [–]

That's a good point that I overlooked in my post - I'm sure this is a huge consideration for Stack Exchange.

For what it's worth Basecamp also evangelize the "scale up" approach and they're on an open-source stack.

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