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Can we also get (I mean this respectfully) a specific answer from YCombinator on who exactly hosts the news.ycombinator.com website? It appears to be the littl

Can we also get (I mean this respectfully) a specific answer from YCombinator on who exactly hosts the news.ycombinator.com website? It appears to be the little heard of and quite hard to track down "M5 Security Solutions" also known as "M5 Hosting". What is strange is they do say they do private hosting for the Department of Defense. Can we get an expansion on that relationship? Thank you.

dang 6y ago
It's no secret. We were happy to answer this last week (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23473932 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23473932), happy a couple years ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16076041 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16076041), and happy now: we have two boxes (one active, one failover) at M5, a small hosting provider that has good support and better tooling than what we had before. They've served HN well. They seem to be run by engineers, and are engineer-friendly. The founder has been an HN user for 9 years (https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=mikiem https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=mikiem). I don't remember how Scott found them, but it was through some HN-sympatico source like an obscure technical mailing list. We wanted to switch providers, and it seemed like a good idea to pick one that appealed to people with similar tastes to us and sympathetic with the spirit of HN. It's worked out great so far. Weirdly, this is at least the third time that you've posted strangely insinuating posts about how/where HN is hosted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21423248 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21423248 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23374955 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23374955 Three starts to look like an idée fixe. I still can't figure out what the insinuation is supposed to be...no, we're not an intelligence front. I really want to put a joke here, but I suppose it would probably only feed whatever this is, so I guess I'd better not.
- rshnotsecure 6y ago
  I just saw this sorry. Reading now.

dang 6y ago

It's no secret. We were happy to answer this last week (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23473932 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23473932), happy a couple years ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16076041 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16076041), and happy now: we have two boxes (one active, one failover) at M5, a small hosting provider that has good support and better tooling than what we had before. They've served HN well. They seem to be run by engineers, and are engineer-friendly. The founder has been an HN user for 9 years (https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=mikiem https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=mikiem). I don't remember how Scott found them, but it was through some HN-sympatico source like an obscure technical mailing list. We wanted to switch providers, and it seemed like a good idea to pick one that appealed to people with similar tastes to us and sympathetic with the spirit of HN. It's worked out great so far. Weirdly, this is at least the third time that you've posted strangely insinuating posts about how/where HN is hosted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21423248 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21423248 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23374955 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23374955 Three starts to look like an idée fixe. I still can't figure out what the insinuation is supposed to be...no, we're not an intelligence front. I really want to put a joke here, but I suppose it would probably only feed whatever this is, so I guess I'd better not.

rshnotsecure 6y ago
I just saw this sorry. Reading now.