Just to clarify, the OP here titled it in a manner that misrepresents what we were saying. Also, we're far from serving static pages. Granted the wiki (which is 50% of our traffic) is pretty static and we could easily run that from a single server, the reason we have such high number of servers is because of the forum, which is the other 30m page views and it's phpbb, it's... well, let's not go there.
This submission is poorly titled, our intention was never to claim we're better than SO (we're very different... just like SO is very different to Digg) it was just a good comparison to make, as in "Joel said they're serving 60m page views a month and SO is huge, well we're doing the same, now you can see how big we are!" not "We serve the same as SO, therefore they suck!".
You really should be using community tracker, my other baby :) http://community.mediabrowser.tv/ I'm so happy I moved off phpbb it was causing nothing but grief.
No hard feeling here, I think you are building an awesome business
We're in the process of moving, it's just a lot of work at our size, we have to make sure everything works :) We actually started out with fluxbb (my choice) but users got tetchy and as we moved from being "just a forum" to being a "community" we had to go forward with new features, but this was back before we had adverts and the $250+ for "proper" forums wasn't something we wanted to do. Here's an idea of how much we've grown: http://i.imgur.com/eenut.jpg
That software looks interesting although as I'm not a sys admin, all that matters to me is how pretty it is and that doesn't have enough rounded corners ;)
This submission is poorly titled, our intention was never to claim we're better than SO (we're very different... just like SO is very different to Digg) it was just a good comparison to make, as in "Joel said they're serving 60m page views a month and SO is huge, well we're doing the same, now you can see how big we are!" not "We serve the same as SO, therefore they suck!".