Ask HN: How much does it cost to run Hacker News?

Havoc wrote: post #2

Last dang talked about hardware it was on a pretty modest xeon so probably not all that much https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28478379 Unsure if anything has changed since

(Edit: probably not) I think they also are behind Cloudflare and they use Algolia for search

So not everything is running there

Re: Ask HN: How much does it cost to run Hacker News?

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Post by nabaraz » Thu, Dec 29, 2022, 10:43 AM UTC

I believe it still runs on one box. Xeon E5-3567 (3.5Ghz). Stack is FREEBSD with nginx as front-end.

From a quick look at M5 hosting price, cost is probably $500-$1000/month (6M requests).

Re: Ask HN: How much does it cost to run Hacker News?

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Post by voytec » Thu, Dec 29, 2022, 10:47 AM UTC

raverbashing wrote: post #6

Havoc wrote: post #2

Last dang talked about hardware it was on a pretty modest xeon so probably not all that much https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28478379 Unsure if anything has changed since

(Edit: probably not) I think they also are behind Cloudflare and they use Algolia for search So not everything is running there

    dig a news.ycombinator.com +short
    209.216.230.240

Not Cloudflare's address.

Re: Ask HN: How much does it cost to run Hacker News?

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Post by revskill » Thu, Dec 29, 2022, 10:48 AM UTC

inductive_magic wrote: post #4

halotrope wrote: post #3

I would be surprised if it was more than $100 per month

Pretty sure dang can't afford rent on that

Of course he has good salary to rent anything he wants.

Re: Ask HN: How much does it cost to run Hacker News?

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Post by ttyyzz » Thu, Dec 29, 2022, 10:48 AM UTC

halotrope wrote: post #3

I would be surprised if it was more than $100 per month

I think you might be off here by the order of ~10