I'm curious about the hardware used to run Hacker News. My guts tell me that despite its popularity it is running on modest hardware, but I'd like to confirm.
Ask HN: What is the hardware of Hacker News?
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Re: Ask HN: What is the hardware of Hacker News?
#2My bet is on AWS, but I'm also rather curious about this.
Re: Ask HN: What is the hardware of Hacker News?
#3Hrm it's behind a web app firewall (server:cloudflare-nginx) so harder to tell.
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#4While we are at it: what language is HN written in?
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#5While we are at it: what language is HN written in?
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#6While we are at it: what language is HN written in?
I believe it is Arc, a lisp dialect that Paul Graham developed
Re: Ask HN: What is the hardware of Hacker News?
#7Hrm it's behind a web app firewall (server:cloudflare-nginx) so harder to tell.
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Re: Ask HN: What is the hardware of Hacker News?
#8IIRC, 2 servers - 1 production, 1 standby, running FreeBSD.
Detailed specs have been written before, try searching.
Re: Ask HN: What is the hardware of Hacker News?
#9It's (edit: almost) the same since Nick posted https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9222006.