# Meta is moving to the Cloud š©
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/meta-is-moving-to-the-cloud/72819
**Category:** Self-hosting
**Tags:** hosting
**Created:** [October 26, 2017, 3:49am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/meta-is-moving-to-the-cloud/72819 "2017-10-26T03:49:38Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2017, 3:49am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/meta-is-moving-to-the-cloud/72819/1 "2017-10-26T03:49:38Z")
**Read Only Mode Very Soon**
We are moving Meta to AWS today, this will involve about 30-45 minutes of āRead onlyā mode while we copy the DB over.
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2017, 3:49am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/meta-is-moving-to-the-cloud/72819/2 "2017-10-26T03:49:54Z")
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2017, 3:56am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/meta-is-moving-to-the-cloud/72819/3 "2017-10-26T03:56:23Z")
Everything should be the same once move is over, but you knowā¦ sometimesā¦ plans meet reality and ā¦ well .. you know.
We are performing this move as part of our project to expand our hosting offers. Once the move is done we will try to publish some data about how performance looked like on AWS vs our super fast servers at Hurricane Electric.
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2017, 5:14am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/meta-is-moving-to-the-cloud/72819/4 "2017-10-26T05:14:15Z")
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2017, 5:14am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/meta-is-moving-to-the-cloud/72819/5 "2017-10-26T05:14:42Z")
OK Move is doneā¦ readonly is out
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### Author:  [@notriddle](https://meta.discourse.org/u/notriddle)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2017, 6:07am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/meta-is-moving-to-the-cloud/72819/6 "2017-10-26T06:07:48Z")
Will there be a blog post with the reasoning behind this? I remember a lot of posts from Discourse about how much more cycles/dollar were available from bare metal.
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2017, 6:13am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/meta-is-moving-to-the-cloud/72819/7 "2017-10-26T06:13:25Z")
Perhaps , some high end customers require hosting on AWS cause they need to be in Europe or China, nothing is changing for our hosted customers.
I do want to do a blog post about how much faster and more predictable our hosting is than AWS at some point
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### Author:  [@notriddle](https://meta.discourse.org/u/notriddle)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2017, 6:34am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/meta-is-moving-to-the-cloud/72819/8 "2017-10-26T06:34:29Z")
> [@sam](#):
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> Perhaps , some high end customers require hosting on AWS cause they need to be in Europe or China, nothing is changing for our hosted customers.
That makes sense, yeah.
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2017, 7:22am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/meta-is-moving-to-the-cloud/72819/11 "2017-10-26T07:22:56Z")
OK lets try this again and see if it works now?
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2017, 6:44am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/meta-is-moving-to-the-cloud/72819/12 "2017-10-26T06:44:07Z")
This is me ensuring that incoming mail is working ā¦ letās see!
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### Author:  [@8BIT](https://meta.discourse.org/u/8BIT)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2017, 1:49pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/meta-is-moving-to-the-cloud/72819/13 "2017-10-26T13:49:17Z")
> [@sam](#):
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> I do want to do a blog post about how much faster and more predictable our hosting is than AWS at some point
Iād love to hear this for sureā¦ and perhaps even some guidance on making the migration ourselves if we have similar needs. Most excellent!
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### Author:  [@DeanMarkTaylor](https://meta.discourse.org/u/DeanMarkTaylor)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2017, 2:43pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/meta-is-moving-to-the-cloud/72819/14 "2017-10-26T14:43:37Z")
FYI: I had to re-login to meta since the move - I donāt know if itās related.
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### Author:  [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2017, 2:55pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/meta-is-moving-to-the-cloud/72819/15 "2017-10-26T14:55:13Z")
Highly-likely related š
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### Author:  [@downey](https://meta.discourse.org/u/downey)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2017, 3:16pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/meta-is-moving-to-the-cloud/72819/16 "2017-10-26T15:16:54Z")
> [@sam](#):
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> Perhaps , some high end customers require hosting on AWS cause they need to be in Europe or China, nothing is changing for our hosted customers.
This is very exciting news for those of us working globally. Look forward to hearing more.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2017, 8:45pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/meta-is-moving-to-the-cloud/72819/17 "2017-10-26T20:45:06Z")
Just to be clear we estimate running on AWS costs about $1000/month, for this site. It is extremely expensive. (Meta is deployed as an enterprise site on our end.)
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2017, 8:48pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/meta-is-moving-to-the-cloud/72819/18 "2017-10-26T20:48:49Z")
Also @dax and @tobiaseigen have reported massively delayed oneboxing. @hawk has reported big delays in desktop notifications as well.
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### Author:  [@AstonJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/AstonJ)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2017, 10:37pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/meta-is-moving-to-the-cloud/72819/19 "2017-10-26T22:37:40Z")
> [@codinghorror](#):
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> Just to be clear we estimate running on AWS costs about $1000/month, for this site. It is extremely expensive. (Meta is deployed as an enterprise site on our end.)
Wow thatās a lot.
Can you share your monthly page views please Jeff? Around a million a month?
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### Author:  [@HAWK](https://meta.discourse.org/u/HAWK)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2017, 10:46pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/meta-is-moving-to-the-cloud/72819/20 "2017-10-26T22:46:51Z")
> [@AstonJ](#):
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> Around a million a month?
More than double that.
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### Author:  [@smaffulli](https://meta.discourse.org/u/smaffulli)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2017, 10:50pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/meta-is-moving-to-the-cloud/72819/21 "2017-10-26T22:50:20Z")
Congratulations on the basically flawless move! Iād love to read what your architecture looks like on AWS.
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### Author:  [@DeanMarkTaylor](https://meta.discourse.org/u/DeanMarkTaylor)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2017, 10:53pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/meta-is-moving-to-the-cloud/72819/22 "2017-10-26T22:53:23Z")
> [@codinghorror](#):
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> @hawk has reported big delays in desktop notifications as well.
Notification of this post just took 14 minutes to arrive:
> [@Meta is moving to the Cloud cloud\_with\_lightning](https://meta.discourse.org/t/meta-is-moving-to-the-cloud-cloud-with-lightning/72819/19):
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> Wow thatās a lot. Can you share your monthly page views please Jeff? Around a million a month?
UPDATE: It then took ~16 minutes to update this post to Onebox the above post reference.
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