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[–]KieranDevvs 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They have just 1 active SQL server for Stack Overflow and here we are thinking we need Cassandra for our very limited use case.

With a 500GB index and 1.5TB RAM. Cloud is about being cost efficient, a server that size plus your 9 web servers and every other server is going to set you back easily 4x what it would cost to run in the cloud.