Don't be silly. It goes down every monday while he makes hard drive copies to the NSA.
We use UFS snapshots for that. No service interruption required ;)
Ask PG: Did the WWDC shut HN down?
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Re: Ask PG: Did the WWDC shut HN down?
#12From what I saw, WWDC had been over for quite a while before HN went down.
Yes, but my guess the highly trafficked comment pages and perhaps the high activity on the database might have taken it down.
Re: Ask PG: Did the WWDC shut HN down?
#13PRISM + WWDC -> very high traffic. Just speculating.
Correction: PRISM + WWDC + E3 -> very high traffic.
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