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I should probably run a blend of 1.1.1.1 with 8.8.8.8 instead.
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It is certainly doable , PoF was running lot of page views famously of a single IIS server for a long time . HN is written in a lisp variant and most the stack is built in-house , it is not difficult to imagine efficiency improvements when many abstraction layers have been removed from your stack .
I don't remember PoF being famous for that, but they got a lot of bang for the buck on their serving costs. What I do remember, is that it was a social data collection experiment for a couple of social scientists, that never originally expected that many people would actually find ways to find each other and hook up using it. I miss their old findings reports about how weird humans are and what they lie about. Now, i…
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Tested with tor and it's right. Some exit nodes aren't affected.
Hm, maybe it's just the SRE in me talking, but if major chunks of the internet being entirely inaccessible doesn't count as an "outage", what does?
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The username is embedded in the page, so you can't do full caching unfortunately. But the whole content could be easily cached and concatenated to header/footer.
You also can't do that every time because of hidden, flagged, showdead, etc.
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With DO, these days, they don't run me out of bandwidth, but my instance falls over (depending on what I am doing - which ain't much), but with AWS, they auto-scale and I get a $5000 bill at the end of the month. I prefer the former.
AWS only auto scales if you configure it to...
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Don't think so. They used to use Cloudflare but stopped. To my knowledge, it's a single server without a database (using the filesystem as a database).
So HN is serving 5.5M page view daily (excluding API access ) on a single server without CDN and without a database? Holy crap I am thinking either there is some magic or everything we are doing in the modern web are wrong. Edit: The number is from Dang [1] > These days around 5.5M page views daily and something like 5M unique readers a month, depending on how you try to count them. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/i…
Discord is entirely down right now, both the website and the app itself. Amusingly, a lot of the sites that normally track outages are also down, which made me think it was my internet at first. Downdetector, monitortheinternet, etc. Lots of other big sites that are down: Patreon, npmjs, DigitalOcean, Coinbase, Zendesk, Medium, GitLab (502), Fiverr, Upwork, Udemy Edit: 15 min later, looks like things are starting to…
Ironically, downdetector.com is also down.
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It is certainly doable , PoF was running lot of page views famously of a single IIS server for a long time . HN is written in a lisp variant and most the stack is built in-house , it is not difficult to imagine efficiency improvements when many abstraction layers have been removed from your stack .
I don't remember PoF being famous for that, but they got a lot of bang for the buck on their serving costs. What I do remember, is that it was a social data collection experiment for a couple of social scientists, that never originally expected that many people would actually find ways to find each other and hook up using it. I miss their old findings reports about how weird humans are and what they lie about. Now, i…
Nick carver from SO also one mentioned that they could run SO if a single server , while it wasn’t fun it was doable and had happened some time .