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I routinely see notices of outages like this posted on HN while HN itself never seems to be impacted. This begs the question: Where and how is HN hosted in a wa

I routinely see notices of outages like this posted on HN while HN itself never seems to be impacted. This begs the question: Where and how is HN hosted in a way that avoids being impacted by widespread network and provider outages?

hunter2_ 7y ago
$ host news.ycombinator.com news.ycombinator.com has address 209.216.230.240 https://whois.arin.net/rest/net/NET-209-216-230-0-1/pft?s=209.216.230.240 https://whois.arin.net/rest/net/NET-209-216-230-0-1/pft?s=20... M5 Computer Security https://www.m5hosting.com https://www.m5hosting.com Unrelated: https://begthequestion.info/ https://begthequestion.info/
- MisterPea 7y ago
  The begs the question site is one of my pet peeves. Language is not moderated by a select few who want to claim it, this isn't France. This is why Ebonics is still a valid form of English - as long as it is used consistently. If everyone uses "begs the question" and everyone else understands it as "raises the question" then it is perfectly valid.
  - joemag 7y ago
    Any phrase that succeeds at transferring an idea out of your head into mine is good enough for me.
  - hunter2_ 7y ago
    Vernacular creates validity, for sure. The site's author acknowledges this, but nonetheless maintains that preserving this particular phrase is useful because there's not really another synonymous and popular phrase that means this particular fallacy, just the Latin petitio principii and the modern translation "laying claim to the principle" which is pretty clumsy if you ask me. Not that "begging the question" is crystal clear either, but at least it's googleable.
jsjohnst 7y ago
I’ve seen a few outages that impacted HN from a provider standpoint. Good example is the CenturyLink outage a few weeks back. CenturyLink isn’t my ISP and neither is it directly HN’s either, but my route to HN was impacted by the outage.

hunter2_ 7y ago

$ host news.ycombinator.com news.ycombinator.com has address 209.216.230.240 https://whois.arin.net/rest/net/NET-209-216-230-0-1/pft?s=209.216.230.240 https://whois.arin.net/rest/net/NET-209-216-230-0-1/pft?s=20... M5 Computer Security https://www.m5hosting.com https://www.m5hosting.com Unrelated: https://begthequestion.info/ https://begthequestion.info/

MisterPea 7y ago
The begs the question site is one of my pet peeves. Language is not moderated by a select few who want to claim it, this isn't France. This is why Ebonics is still a valid form of English - as long as it is used consistently. If everyone uses "begs the question" and everyone else understands it as "raises the question" then it is perfectly valid.
- joemag 7y ago
  Any phrase that succeeds at transferring an idea out of your head into mine is good enough for me.
- hunter2_ 7y ago
  Vernacular creates validity, for sure. The site's author acknowledges this, but nonetheless maintains that preserving this particular phrase is useful because there's not really another synonymous and popular phrase that means this particular fallacy, just the Latin petitio principii and the modern translation "laying claim to the principle" which is pretty clumsy if you ask me. Not that "begging the question" is crystal clear either, but at least it's googleable.

jsjohnst 7y ago

I’ve seen a few outages that impacted HN from a provider standpoint. Good example is the CenturyLink outage a few weeks back. CenturyLink isn’t my ISP and neither is it directly HN’s either, but my route to HN was impacted by the outage.