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Ask HN: Are HN servers overloaded?
Every nth time I recharge I see a NGINX error template. It looks as there are some problems with high volume. Anyone else experiencing it? I'm in Spain/EU FYI.
- ColinWright 8y agoHN has felt glacial to me over the past few hours. I wondered if I'd been put on slow-down, but it was slow even when logged out. Now I've had this a couple of times: An error occurred. Sorry, the page you are looking for is currently unavailable. Please try again later. If you are the system administrator of this resource then you should check the error log for details. Faithfully yours, nginx. So there are problems.
- robxu9 8y agoYep, also experiencing it here in NYC. I'm assuming it's because of the high traffic volume from the Microsoft/Github-related posts.
- iBelieve 8y agoI haven't seen any errors, but pages are taking way longer than normal to load for me. I'm in St. Louis, Missouri. EDIT: just got the nginx error page others have mentioned.
- pmontra 8y agoNo problems here, Italy.
- osrec 8y agoSeeing the same issue in London, so you're not alone.
- LinuxBender 8y agoI received a couple bad gateway errors recently.
- 0d311 8y agoSlowdowns here in Boston.
- caf203 8y agoNo problems here in VA over the past few hours
- caf203 8y agoNothing noticeable here in VA over the past few hours.
- jasonjayr 8y agoA while ago there was a big thread -- and they put up a note asking folks to log out if they were just reading. It seems like logged in users cause extra load while HN calculates scores and points. IF you're not logged in, HN can serve up cached results much faster. That 1k+ thread re: MS/GitHub must be taxing the system. (Not a HN insider, just mentioning what I rememberd from last time)
- gargravarr 8y agoI just tried logging out and I think you're right - HN was much faster. I'll keep this in mind in future - I usually stay logged in, but if it's making this much difference in load on the hN servers, I'll log out if I'm not commenting.
- 52-6F-62 8y agoSame here in Toronto. Periodically dropping to the HN error page displaying old status tweets :>)
- craftyguy 8y agoI like how, according to their HNStatus twitter thing (1), there have been no problems since April 2016! 1) https://mobile.twitter.com/HNStatus https://mobile.twitter.com/HNStatus
- interfixus 8y agoIntermittently not loading. Denmark.
- Y_Y 8y agoEven worse I sometimes get a page that shows my the HN status twitter, last updated in 2016.
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- codedokode 8y agoYes, page load can take as much as 10-15 s.
- gnicholas 8y agoSlow in Silocon Valley. I’m on Comcast.
- _Codemonkeyism 8y agoProblems, site very slow, Berlin, Germany. Posting takes >30 sec.
- MrStonedOne 8y agoThe reddit redesign that's been rolling out has likely brought increased users to here overall, and the github accustion plus the above means a higher than normal amount of people are discussing the github accustion here rather than on /r/github or /r/technology
- dang 8y agoYes, steam is coming out of our single-core process in disconcerting places. We've got some duct-tape measures we can take, but there's also some huge work we've been doing to overhaul performance that should come online pretty soon. Unfortunately it may be a bumpy ride until then. And if that doesn't work...well it better work.
- amaccuish 8y agoAnyone know what language HN is written, what stack etc?
- kinsomo 8y agoCommon Lisp, I think...
- lispm 8y agoNo, Arc running on top of Scheme.
- Deimorz 8y agoArc, a dialect of Lisp: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arc_(programming_language)#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arc_(programming_language)#His... There's not really a "stack", it doesn't even use a database (everything is stored in files).
- asdsa5325 8y ago> it doesn't even use a database (everything is stored in files). No wonder HN is crashing...