I would be surprised if it was more than $100 per month
Pretty sure dang can't afford rent on that
> Pretty sure dang can't afford rent on that
#dangdeservesbetter
Ask HN: How much does it cost to run Hacker News?
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Re: Ask HN: How much does it cost to run Hacker News?
#12Earlier quoted context omitted.
(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.
They had a hardware failure this year and were for a really short time on a cloud instance and behind cloudflare.
Re: Ask HN: How much does it cost to run Hacker News?
#13I 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).
I wonder how much it would cost to run if it were designed and run with 2022 modern best practices of Kubernetes, Helm, Node + React, on a fleet of cattle servers hosted on AWS, paired with expensive add-on services because running PostgreSQL is too hard.
The cynic in me says it would cost at least 10x that, require a full time team of 5 devops, and we'd suffer at the very least the same amount of outages, if not worse.
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#15I 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).
I wonder how much it would cost to run if it were designed and run with 2022 modern best practices of Kubernetes, Helm, Node + React, on a fleet of cattle servers hosted on AWS, paired with expensive add-on services because running PostgreSQL is too hard. The cynic in me says it would cost at least 10x that, require a full time team of 5 devops, and we'd suffer at the very least the same amount of outages, if not wor…
That comment exactly.
Re: Ask HN: How much does it cost to run Hacker News?
#16I 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).
I wonder how much it would cost to run if it were designed and run with 2022 modern best practices of Kubernetes, Helm, Node + React, on a fleet of cattle servers hosted on AWS, paired with expensive add-on services because running PostgreSQL is too hard. The cynic in me says it would cost at least 10x that, require a full time team of 5 devops, and we'd suffer at the very least the same amount of outages, if not wor…
I just and an aneurysm
Re: Ask HN: How much does it cost to run Hacker News?
#17Text-only, No media hosting/ops — less than $500 on a humble setup.
Re: Ask HN: How much does it cost to run Hacker News?
#18I 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).
I wonder how much it would cost to run if it were designed and run with 2022 modern best practices of Kubernetes, Helm, Node + React, on a fleet of cattle servers hosted on AWS, paired with expensive add-on services because running PostgreSQL is too hard. The cynic in me says it would cost at least 10x that, require a full time team of 5 devops, and we'd suffer at the very least the same amount of outages, if not wor…
I lol-ed at this. A few years ago, someone said it runs as a single process on 1 core and use no database, everything is written to filesystem.
Re: Ask HN: How much does it cost to run Hacker News?
#19Pretty sure the most expensive thing is @dang's time.
Deservedly so
Re: Ask HN: How much does it cost to run Hacker News?
#20I 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).
I wonder how much it would cost to run if it were designed and run with 2022 modern best practices of Kubernetes, Helm, Node + React, on a fleet of cattle servers hosted on AWS, paired with expensive add-on services because running PostgreSQL is too hard. The cynic in me says it would cost at least 10x that, require a full time team of 5 devops, and we'd suffer at the very least the same amount of outages, if not wor…
I think your cynicism is probably true to the mark. Everything is f*king over engineered now.