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It is certainly doable , PoF was running lot of page views famously of a single IIS server for a long time . HN is written in a lisp variant and most the stack
by manquer 6y ago
It is certainly doable , PoF was running lot of page views famously of a single IIS server for a long time .
HN is written in a lisp variant and most the stack is built in-house , it is not difficult to imagine efficiency improvements when many abstraction layers have been removed from your stack .
- ci5er 6y agoI don't remember PoF being famous for that, but they got a lot of bang for the buck on their serving costs. What I do remember, is that it was a social data collection experiment for a couple of social scientists, that never originally expected that many people would actually find ways to find each other and hook up using it. I miss their old findings reports about how weird humans are and what they lie about. Now, it's just plain boring with no insights released to the public.
- blisseyGo 6y agoPOF was also run by a single dude until he sold it for some 600 million dollars!
- manquer 6y agoThere are couple of old posts about it in hpc blog . Nick carver from SO also one mentioned that they could run SO if a single server , while it wasn’t fun it was doable and had happened some time .