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Re: HN is up again

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pyb wrote: post #94
olingern wrote: post #84

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

AWS has had more outages than HN in recent times

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Re: HN is up again

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Post by the_af »

chrisshroba wrote: post #126
joshstrange wrote: post #34

I don't think I had ever fully internalized how often I open this site throughout the day. Finish a task? HN. Got frustrated/stuck on a problem? HN break. Waiting for something to install/upload/compile/etc? HN. Needless to say I opened a new tab, typed "n", and hit enter countless times today before my brain caught up with my muscle memory.

I legitimately thought my internet was down for thirty minutes until I decided to try google.

Same. HN is how I check my internet connection is working. Took me a while to realize the problem wasn't my connection...

Re: HN is up again

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Post by mpyne »

pyb wrote: post #94
olingern wrote: post #84

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

AWS has had more outages than HN in recent times

AWS also operates at a significantly larger scale. When was the last AWS outage due to two critical disks failing at the same time?

Re: HN is up again

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Post by bestinterest »

Amfy wrote: post #128

Interesting though, HN is now hosted on AWS and no longer on bare metal (m5 hosting). % host news.ycombinator.com news.ycombinator.com has address 50.112.136.166 and also interesting: DNS TTL is set to 1 (one).

Oh that is interesting, I guess they just spun up a beefy EC2 instance. I'm noticing slower performance, I used to get about 
    NetRange:       50.112.0.0 - 50.112.255.255
    CIDR:           50.112.0.0/16
    NetName:        AMAZON-EC2-USWESTOR
    NetHandle:      NET-50-112-0-0-1
    Parent:         NET50 (NET-50-0-0-0-0)
    NetType:        Direct Allocation
    OriginAS:       AS14618
    Organization:   Amazon.com, Inc. (AMAZO-47)
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