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HN will be down Saturday morning while we switch servers

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Re: HN will be down Saturday morning while we switch servers

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Post by rdl »

Given that you've got performance issues and a fairly limiting deployment model, I never understood why you didn't get the most absurdly overpowered machine possible. (I assume you're not, because if you were, you'd be upgrading every ~6mo or so as faster single-core machines come out)

Re: HN will be down Saturday morning while we switch servers

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Post by rayvega »

pg wrote: post #7
WALoeIII wrote: post #4

Can you please post a picture of the server so we can see all the sweet LEDs on network cards?

http://imgur.com/VuSH2j5

Love the symmetry of the photo...triangle. (I suspect with the orange background that it was taken at the YC office? http://m.inc.com/?incid=96)

Re: HN will be down Saturday morning while we switch servers

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Post by Semiapies »

Steko wrote: post #58
badgar wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A commenting site that: - Has average latency over 500ms when not under load - Performs quite poorly under load (I hate to bring it up, but the most recent example was Aaron Swartz's passing. Anyone who used HN then to get news knows how poorly HN performs under load) - Is restarted every week or two because it leaks memory - Keeps XSRF tokens in memory and loses them across restarts - Doesn't have a full markup lang…

You're probably seeing the artificial delay introduced for commenters that can't maintain at least a 4.0 comment point average or people who aren't signed in. Site runs like butter for me.

Site runs faster for people not logged in, too.

Re: HN will be down Saturday morning while we switch servers

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Post by pyre »

kgermino wrote: post #59
pyre wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

... broken window fallacy ?

Not sure what you mean by that but I think it'll be closer to: >"HN's Down!" >"fuck it, lets get some work done"

I misread it as, "2000 startups are created to replace functionality." :P

Re: HN will be down Saturday morning while we switch servers

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Post by incongruity »

badgar wrote: post #57
saraid216 wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And yet, here you are, on a site run off a flat file database.

A commenting site that: - Has average latency over 500ms when not under load - Performs quite poorly under load (I hate to bring it up, but the most recent example was Aaron Swartz's passing. Anyone who used HN then to get news knows how poorly HN performs under load) - Is restarted every week or two because it leaks memory - Keeps XSRF tokens in memory and loses them across restarts - Doesn't have a full markup lang…

>People use HN because pg is here.

Nothing personal against pg - but I'm here more because of everyone else - the caliber of the discussion, for a news/tech site is quite high, IMHO - and that's due to everyone, not just pg.

Re: HN will be down Saturday morning while we switch servers

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Post by douglasisshiny »

pg wrote: post #55
brador wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just how popular is HN? Anyone got info on uniques or pageviews a month?

We currently get just over 200k uniques and just under 2m page views on weekdays (less on weekends).

Thank you for creating a wonderful source of information!

Re: HN will be down Saturday morning while we switch servers

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Post by larrys »

eclipticplane wrote: post #38
larrys wrote: post #14

In case anyone wondering colo place appears to be The Planet. whois -h whois.arin.net 174.132.225.106 NetRange: 174.132.0.0 - 174.133.255.255 CIDR: 174.132.0.0/15 Name: 6a.e1.84ae.static.theplanet.com Address: 174.132.225.106 OriginAS: AS36420, AS30315, AS13749, AS21844 NetName: NETBLK-THEPLANET-BLK-15 NetHandle: NET-174-132-0-0-1 Parent: NET-174-0-0-0-0 NetType: Direct Allocation RegDate: 2008-06-17 Updated: 2012-02…

*SoftLayer. ThePlanet is no longer, but a lot of their reverse DNS entries still point to .theplanet.com.

I had forgotten that but that was actually a merger:

http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2010/11/10/softl...

In any case they never got the block changed at arin. We switched providers at one point within the last 6 mos. and the old colo already changed the arin block.

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