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phew Almost thought HN was blocked here in China...
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Are you paying for this?
What would you say if Google.com was down for 2 hours due to a server upgrade? Do you pay Google for searching? Bonus points if you do actually. Their search API is limited to 100 a day, which is not a lot.
More importantly, why isn't there a status page for something that's equivalent to a lifesaving drug for many?
use twitter - there were various things there, including an explanation from pg and some people recommending alternatives. https://twitter.com/search?q=hacker%20news&src=typd
Saturday, I thought: "This guy (PG) is really brave, everybody is nowadays using virtualized server environments on mulit-core machines and PG just gets some bare metal and puts his app on one core and one thread. WTF, this guy is a genius, single-threaded apps on bare metal FTW, this is so great and I am doing this too." After seeing this thing down for several hours -- and Google hate downtimes, they punish you ins…
the site actually runs very quickly, so can't argue it needs more cores / threads. seems the issue was more with the migration. so i reckon you're good to get back to removing all the threads from your apps :)
Timing some pages, the response is around 350ms. That means 95% of the loading time is networking, not generation time. You're right, the server is really fast given the load HN brings down on one server!
strange productivity peak recorded in the IT sector during the past 16 hours