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For me I find it funny that HN doesn’t scale. Whenever there’s an unusually active topic, the mods have to scramble to make countermeasures to keep the site up.
by remote_phone 6y ago
For me I find it funny that HN doesn’t scale. Whenever there’s an unusually active topic, the mods have to scramble to make countermeasures to keep the site up.
- saagarjha 6y agoWell, it does runs off of one computer: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22767439 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22767439
- pjc50 6y agoIt usually scales well enough to demolish sites it links to sometimes, like Slashdot used to.
- dang 6y agoThat's not true. I wonder where you got that idea. It is true that the app server runs on a single core and we don't have a lot of performance to spare. But it handles the current levels of active threads reasonably well. The main concern is that if average load goes up significantly we'll be in trouble at some point. We've got an ongoing major project that will hopefully flatten that curve, but unfortunately it's hard to find time to work on it.