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Originally Posted by htismaqe
I all but guarantee you they are running "in the cloud". They're distributed across hundreds of geographically dispersed virtual servers and adding more resources is available at the click of a button.
AFAIK, CP is still hosted on one physical server with finite resources. CP just can't scale to meet the demand.
And before you suggest it, cloud hosting CP would cost astronomically more per month than using one server. It's a non-starter without a real funding source.
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Depends a bit on what you consider "cloud hosting" though. My personal take (that AC doesn't agree with) is that we should give up on self-hosting this thing and just go with "cloud" hosting with vBulletin in their shared infrastructure. We'd be on a box (or probably cluster of boxes) with other sites, but we could stop screwing around with this ancient software and let the pros keep it up and running.
But yeah, that's very different than self-hosting but figuring out our own network of CDNs to manage loads and such.