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Re: Cloudflare was down

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Post by [deleted] »

ksec wrote: post #331
snazz wrote: post #265

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Don't think so. They used to use Cloudflare but stopped. To my knowledge, it's a single server without a database (using the filesystem as a database).

So HN is serving 5.5M page view daily (excluding API access ) on a single server without CDN and without a database? Holy crap I am thinking either there is some magic or everything we are doing in the modern web are wrong. Edit: The number is from Dang [1] > These days around 5.5M page views daily and something like 5M unique readers a month, depending on how you try to count them. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/i…

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Re: Cloudflare was down

#352

Post by jyap »

ksec wrote: post #331
snazz wrote: post #265

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Don't think so. They used to use Cloudflare but stopped. To my knowledge, it's a single server without a database (using the filesystem as a database).

So HN is serving 5.5M page view daily (excluding API access ) on a single server without CDN and without a database? Holy crap I am thinking either there is some magic or everything we are doing in the modern web are wrong. Edit: The number is from Dang [1] > These days around 5.5M page views daily and something like 5M unique readers a month, depending on how you try to count them. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/i…

You don’t need a CDN if what you’re serving up in this case is mostly all text.

Just need good stable code and server side caching.

Re: Cloudflare was down

#353

Post by fivre »

rozab wrote: post #136

We can't keep going on like this. The vulnerability of centralised internet infrastructure is a huge problem for everyone. Somebody, somewhere, really ought to sort it all out

10-20 minute router misconfigurations and subsequent fixes are sometimes a fact of life. big network infrastructure is complicated, and sometimes the best laid route tables of mice and men do go abloop and die.

Outages happen no matter what the infrastructure is. There's no solution, they're just something you need to recognize and handle, which Cloudflare seemingly did relatively quickly here.

Re: Cloudflare was down

#355

Post by techntoke »

ksec wrote: post #331
snazz wrote: post #265

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Don't think so. They used to use Cloudflare but stopped. To my knowledge, it's a single server without a database (using the filesystem as a database).

So HN is serving 5.5M page view daily (excluding API access ) on a single server without CDN and without a database? Holy crap I am thinking either there is some magic or everything we are doing in the modern web are wrong. Edit: The number is from Dang [1] > These days around 5.5M page views daily and something like 5M unique readers a month, depending on how you try to count them. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/i…

Flat-file DBs and mountable DB file systems are the future.

Re: Cloudflare was down

#356

Post by Rockjodd »

Rockjodd wrote: post #263
Rockjodd wrote: post #81

For people who reports this is down, which country are you in? Because all the reported sites works flawless from Norway (Europe) :-)

I put my bet on some peering fuckups, causing outrages since people are having packet loss etc.

"Update - This afternoon we saw an outage across some parts of our network. It was not as a result of an attack. It appears a router on our global backbone announced bad routes and caused some portions of the network to not be available. We believe we have addressed the root cause and are monitoring systems for stability now. Jul 17, 22:09 UTC" - https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/

Re: Cloudflare was down

#357

Post by blhack »

ksec wrote: post #331
snazz wrote: post #265

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Don't think so. They used to use Cloudflare but stopped. To my knowledge, it's a single server without a database (using the filesystem as a database).

So HN is serving 5.5M page view daily (excluding API access ) on a single server without CDN and without a database? Holy crap I am thinking either there is some magic or everything we are doing in the modern web are wrong. Edit: The number is from Dang [1] > These days around 5.5M page views daily and something like 5M unique readers a month, depending on how you try to count them. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/i…

>Holy crap I am thinking either there is some magic or everything we are doing in the modern web are wrong.

Spin up an apache installation and see how many requests you can serve per second if you're just serving static files off of an SSD. It's a lot.

edit: I see that there are already a bunch of other comments to this effect. I think you're comment is really going to bring out the old timers, haha. From my perspective, the "modern web" is absolutely insane.

Re: Cloudflare was down

#358

Post by m0xte »

ksec wrote: post #331
snazz wrote: post #265

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Don't think so. They used to use Cloudflare but stopped. To my knowledge, it's a single server without a database (using the filesystem as a database).

So HN is serving 5.5M page view daily (excluding API access ) on a single server without CDN and without a database? Holy crap I am thinking either there is some magic or everything we are doing in the modern web are wrong. Edit: The number is from Dang [1] > These days around 5.5M page views daily and something like 5M unique readers a month, depending on how you try to count them. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/i…

Modern web is a completely broken mess.

We were serving around that traffic off a single dual pentium 3 in 2002 quite happily off IIS/SQL Server/ASP. The amount of information presented has not grown either.

That little box had some top tier brand main corporate web sites on it too and was pumping out 30-40 requests a second peak. There was no CDN.

Re: Cloudflare was down

#359

Post by bitdeep »

ksec wrote: post #331
snazz wrote: post #265

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Don't think so. They used to use Cloudflare but stopped. To my knowledge, it's a single server without a database (using the filesystem as a database).

So HN is serving 5.5M page view daily (excluding API access ) on a single server without CDN and without a database? Holy crap I am thinking either there is some magic or everything we are doing in the modern web are wrong. Edit: The number is from Dang [1] > These days around 5.5M page views daily and something like 5M unique readers a month, depending on how you try to count them. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/i…

Man, if this is true, this guys have steel balls.

Re: Cloudflare was down

#360

Post by rodgerd »

ksec wrote: post #331
snazz wrote: post #265

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Don't think so. They used to use Cloudflare but stopped. To my knowledge, it's a single server without a database (using the filesystem as a database).

So HN is serving 5.5M page view daily (excluding API access ) on a single server without CDN and without a database? Holy crap I am thinking either there is some magic or everything we are doing in the modern web are wrong. Edit: The number is from Dang [1] > These days around 5.5M page views daily and something like 5M unique readers a month, depending on how you try to count them. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/i…

Back in 2000 a joke project of mine got slashdotted. Ran outta bandwidth before anything else.
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