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How does HN pay the server bills, etc.? Is it essentially paid for as a marketing / recruiting aid out of ycombinator funds? Or is it a charity paid for by PG
by flubert 9y ago
How does HN pay the server bills, etc.? Is it essentially paid for as a marketing / recruiting aid out of ycombinator funds? Or is it a charity paid for by PG?
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- mschuster91 9y ago> How does HN pay the server bills, etc.? I believe it's two relatively simple servers running the Arc code of HN, and Cloudflare as CDN. HN does not need much processing power or bandwidth - 5 assets (cacheable+versioned CSS/JS, three tiny gifs) and thanks to gzip usually two-digit KB sizes of content. The only real expense is the manpower needed for moderation.
- ythn 9y ago> The only real expense is the manpower needed for moderation. dang, who would want to do that as their job?
- bradknowles 9y agoPunmeister Meisterpunner sees what you did there. ;)
- srtjstjsj 9y agoPG has explained that HN is an ad for YC, both indirectly, and directly (YC companies inject "sponsored posts" into HN frontpage, to advertise jobs.)