Seems to have collapsed, but archive.org has a snapshot.
https://web.archive.org/web/20220811232234/https://reactos.a...
Page was served from Nginx on ReactOS
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Re: Page was served from Nginx on ReactOS
#12Over the last few months we've seen so many "Page served from..." and most of them are just DOA. Why can't people put a little effort and host those pages on their hardware/software of choice but at least put them behind some CDN (at least for static resources)?
Because when people do serve them from behind a CDN people rush to the comments to lambast them for not serving every request from the system in question.
Re: Page was served from Nginx on ReactOS
#13Is that why it's not working?
It seems to be because HN is forcing HTTPS, it works when using HTTP.
Try this: http://reactos.aaron.cc/
Re: Page was served from Nginx on ReactOS
#14Over the last few months we've seen so many "Page served from..." and most of them are just DOA. Why can't people put a little effort and host those pages on their hardware/software of choice but at least put them behind some CDN (at least for static resources)?
Maybe it wasn't meant for HN, but actually for someone's blog that only gets a few hundred hits a day if it's a very successful blog. Going out on a limb here.
Re: Page was served from Nginx on ReactOS
#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
Most likely the HN Hug of Death® had gone into effect. It's capable of incapacitating any sort of system without load balancing as soon as that system is linked from the front of Hacker News.
If you’re just serving static HTML, HN should not be a problem. It’s only if you’re running code (and database queries) for every request that your server might go down in flames.
This might not work the same for a fresh port on an alternative system. For example: I have no idea how many open connections reactos could handle on the kernel-side with a standard config.
Re: Page was served from Nginx on ReactOS
#16Over the last few months we've seen so many "Page served from..." and most of them are just DOA. Why can't people put a little effort and host those pages on their hardware/software of choice but at least put them behind some CDN (at least for static resources)?
This is HN’s fault this time: it’s forcing HTTPS which the site doesn’t support.
Try this, and it’ll work: http://reactos.aaron.cc/
Re: Page was served from Nginx on ReactOS
#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
When did the Slashdot effect get renamed to Hug of Death? Anyway, 'tis broken for me too. There must be quite a few hits on your website when HN links it. nginx out of the box can handle quite a lot of connections, assuming that it isn't trying serve something too complicated on each one.
I believe the phrase originated from Reddit many years ago, where the audience isn't fully familiar with the phrase's previous incarnation. Since then it has been reappropriated widely on HN and Imgur and any place where people gather and unwittingly cause a denial of service with the best of intentions.
Thank you. I can't say I've been keeping up with my memes n that. The damn kids must have grown up or something!
I have to say, it is quite fun watching words, phrases and ideas being made up on the fly at a prolific rate these days. I can still remember reading about memes in a Richard Dawkins book and a few years later the concept was coerced wholesale by the internets. I still remember thinking "what the fuck is a roflcopter" and then suddenly achieving enlightenment. My granddaughters were born with thumbs that can doom scroll.
Nowadays are properly weird and will continue to get weirder. Despite that it will also continue to be normal.
Re: Page was served from Nginx on ReactOS
#18Seems to have collapsed, but archive.org has a snapshot. https://web.archive.org/web/20220811232234/https://reactos.a...
Hasn't collapsed, you just need to access it through HTTP instead of HTTPS.
Re: Page was served from Nginx on ReactOS
#19Is that why it's not working?
Most likely the HN Hug of Death® had gone into effect. It's capable of incapacitating any sort of system without load balancing as soon as that system is linked from the front of Hacker News.
Hasn't collapsed, you just need to access it through HTTP instead of HTTPS.
Re: Page was served from Nginx on ReactOS
#20Over the last few months we've seen so many "Page served from..." and most of them are just DOA. Why can't people put a little effort and host those pages on their hardware/software of choice but at least put them behind some CDN (at least for static resources)?
Half the time it's the links says https and the server only does http.