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From memory StackOverflow itself only runs on 2 web servers. The rest are for various other stackexchange properties. You'll also note that peak CPU is about 20%, so they could probably run everything on 2 or 3 servers at max CPU (bad!). But they could easily halve the number of webservers and stay performant (but not fault tolerant).


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