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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).
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Add me to the list - I'm in for $100 if we can make it a one week outage. $250 if we can stretch it out to two weeks. I'm sorry, but 10 minutes on a saturday morning does nothing for me.
My router at home blocks Reddit and HN except from 5-7pm and 11:45-midnight (and all day Saturday). Worked amazingly well to cut back the addiction. Now if I could just get HTTPS blocking to work on FB and Twitter.
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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…
Actually I'd never heard of pg or YC until they bubbled up into my consciousness from reading HN.
Does all of HN run on one single server?
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Because you always end up building your own database out of flat files and that is always worse than using an existing one.
If it was always worse then every developer doing this must be stupid. Here are some ways in which a filesystem is "better": - Zero administration - Only configuration setting is the directory - Trivial to test - Trivial to examine with existing tools, backup, modify etc - Works with any operating system, language, platform, libraries etc - Good performance characteristics and well tuned by the operating system - Eas…
It's Friday night. My favorite band ( http://www.theanatomyoffrank.com/music ) is playing a house show in my town, which is the best kind of show because it's BYOB. Then, my best friend from Texas is in town for the night, and we're meeting up. I'm definitely going to go tear it up and create some memories. And yet..... all I can think of is to stay up all night creating a "replacement HN" just for Saturday morning.…
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Because you always end up building your own database out of flat files and that is always worse than using an existing one.
If it was always worse then every developer doing this must be stupid. Here are some ways in which a filesystem is "better": - Zero administration - Only configuration setting is the directory - Trivial to test - Trivial to examine with existing tools, backup, modify etc - Works with any operating system, language, platform, libraries etc - Good performance characteristics and well tuned by the operating system - Eas…
Thank you, drive through.
(Funny surprise: the one for this comment box expired before I submitted this comment.)
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We currently get just over 200k uniques and just under 2m page views on weekdays (less on weekends).
Does a single server support this level of traffic? That is pretty impressive - it would be great to learn about the server's hardware and software configuration.
P.S. I see that abstractbill beat me to it, both in stating here and in originally acquiring this information:
Sorry, just hit a nerve. Like doing some OS updates (Windows) and then needing to reboot to "complete the installation". I'm sorry. That totally sucks.