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Post by gibsonf1 »

I've been getting increasing loss of news yc availability in the last few days. Is it just me, or is the server getting overloaded? (This was espeically a bummer as I was filling out the YC application)

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Post by german »

jsjenkins168 wrote: post #2

Not just you, I've had it too over the last day or so. Strangely, response time is still very good, so don't think it is due to server load..

I've been having the same problems with news.ycombinator.com, but ycombinator.com loads everytime.

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Post by drm237 »

Yeah, here also. Hopefully it's not a load/scaling issue. It would be interesting to know more about the platform and hosting configuration.

It's interesting the server responds to pings, but the webserver seems to be shot when it's down.

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Post by imsteve »

jsjenkins168 wrote: post #2

Not just you, I've had it too over the last day or so. Strangely, response time is still very good, so don't think it is due to server load..

Response time is not the only thing that could be affected by server load. Those infamous threading problems (deadlock, race..) also are a possibility.

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Post by Zak »

drm237 wrote: post #4

Yeah, here also. Hopefully it's not a load/scaling issue. It would be interesting to know more about the platform and hosting configuration. It's interesting the server responds to pings, but the webserver seems to be shot when it's down.

PG has mentioned before that it's a custom web server written in Arc. It's not unusual for web server software to go down while the host machine keeps working - especially when it's experimental software written in an unfinished programming language.
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