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Paul, have you considered asking the community to volunteer resources? You've mentioned several times that the site is on one server and that performance is an
by portman 16y ago
Paul, have you considered asking the community to volunteer resources?
You've mentioned several times that the site is on one server and that performance is an issue at times. I would donate time/money to make those problems go away, and I suspect others would as well.
Proposal:
Post a new thread, "somebody build me a HN server farm", and include the software and hardware prerequisites for an Arc webserver. I bet within 48 hours you would have a 3-4 servers and a load balancer at your disposal.
- jrockway 16y agoI think the issue is that news.arc doesn't use a distributable storage system. It is as far from "shared nothing" as you get.
- portman 16y agoHm, interesting. You can scale anything, though. For example, a pair of reverse proxies in front of the single "share nothing" app server could reduce the load on that one machine. I'm sure the collective brilliance of the HN readership could come up with solutions.
- staunch 16y agoSimple: buy a bigger server. It's amazing how powerful one machine can be these days.
- grinich 16y agoAssuming nothing has changed, it's running on a "3.0 GHz Core whatever, 12 GB RAM, 64-bit FreeBSD 7.1." Upgraded on 4/19/09 from a 2.4 GHz Pentium 4, 4 GB RAM, 32-bit FreeBSD 5.3. rtm's comment: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=516122 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=516122
- jrockway 16y agoYeah, well, this is a middle of the road server these days. I have a 16-core server with 64G of RAM as a dev server at work. They get even more powerful than this, too. Not saying pg should spend any money on this, though. A redesign of news.arc will stretch the hardware a lot further.