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Yes, I noticed it too. I don't know what the backend is, but if it's on a single shared machine it might be too many inquires on the hardware at once. Maybe as
by Scott_MacGregor 16y ago
Yes, I noticed it too.
I don't know what the backend is, but if it's on a single shared machine it might be too many inquires on the hardware at once. Maybe ask the hosting company to move it to a machine with a lower load.
- lukeqsee 16y agoIt's an arc backend. (http://arclanguage.org/ http://arclanguage.org/)
- mrduncan 16y agoAs of 2 years ago, it was hosted on a "3.0 GHz Core whatever, 12 GB RAM, 64-bit FreeBSD 7.1" - it's certainly not a shared machine. (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=516122 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=516122) rtm is the sysadmin for HN (yes, that rtm: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Tappan_Morris http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Tappan_Morris).
- BrandonM 16y ago> rtm is the sysadmin for HN (yes, that rtm: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Tappan_Morris http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Tappan_Morris) It always makes me laugh when someone with no knowledge of a website offers advice to that site's sysadmin. It's especially funny when that sysadmin is of the calibre of RTM.
- pyre 16y agoIIRC, pg said that ycombinator.com (which is where all of HN's static content is served from) was on shared hosting.
- mrduncan 16y agoIt looks like ycombinator.com is hosted by SliceHost (http://www.whoishostingthis.com/ycombinator.com http://www.whoishostingthis.com/ycombinator.com).
- pbogdan 16y agoIt seems to be on SliceHost (if nothing changed in the mean time) - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1283430 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1283430.