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As 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
by mrduncan 16y ago
As 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.