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Re: HN is up again

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Post by leeoniya » Fri, Jul 08, 2022, 8:43 PM UTC

function_seven wrote: post #11

Everyone, you're welcome. My last F5 must've jogged it loose finally.

are you wearing a cape, or are you not?

Re: HN is up again

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Post by Johnny555 » Fri, Jul 08, 2022, 8:44 PM UTC

Will you be posting a postmortem?

Not that I deserve or expect one from a free service, but because I enjoy reading postmortems from failures where both the primary and backup systems failed, I like to see what holes I might have in my own failover setup.

Re: HN is up again

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Jul 08, 2022, 8:44 PM UTC

sillysaurusx wrote: post #20

HN was down because the failover server also failed: https://twitter.com/HNStatus/status/1545409429113229312 Double disk failure is improbable but not impossible. The most impressive thing is that there seems to be no dataloss, almost whatsoever. Whatever the backup system is, it seems rock solid.

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Re: HN is up again

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Post by olingern » Fri, Jul 08, 2022, 8:44 PM UTC

While the naysayers will say, "Why isn't this in the cloud?," I think the response times and uptime of hackernews is really impressive. If anyone has a write-up of the infrastructure that runs HN, I would be interested. Maybe startups really can be run off of a rasberry pi

Re: HN is up again

#85

Post by lkxijlewlf » Fri, Jul 08, 2022, 8:44 PM UTC

Feels snappier. :)

Re: HN is up again

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Post by swyx » Fri, Jul 08, 2022, 8:44 PM UTC

pastor_bob wrote: post #48

sillysaurusx wrote: post #20

HN was down because the failover server also failed: https://twitter.com/HNStatus/status/1545409429113229312 Double disk failure is improbable but not impossible. The most impressive thing is that there seems to be no dataloss, almost whatsoever. Whatever the backup system is, it seems rock solid.

is dang pushing changes and such on his own? sounds like it is run by one guy