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I hadn't heard of Archiveteam before, but the fact that HN brings their site down doesn't make me too confident in their backing up skills :)
by imartin2k 9y ago
I hadn't heard of Archiveteam before, but the fact that HN brings their site down doesn't make me too confident in their backing up skills :)
- Xylakant 9y agoHN has been bringing down a few sites that were unprepared. True, it's possible to harden your page for unexpected traffic spikes, but that's always work and maybe you just decide it's not worth the effort and invest the time elsewhere. (whether that's a good decision is up for debate)
- jacquesm 9y agoHN can direct more traffic than you think, and it can do so very quickly. AT's backing up skills are fine, and if you've managed to be on HN for nearly 5 years without hearing about them then that does not make me too confident about your reading skills :)
- imartin2k 9y agofair point :) for me it's more this "first impression thing".
- chipperyman573 9y agoBacking up data then storing it to be infrequently read and handing a major spike of traffic are two very different things.
- dmacedo 9y agoYou're thinking scalability. What they do is reliability in archives, and "team work" (it's in the name) for retrieval. Cheers