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An Ask HN analysis: How Hacker News users host and build their sites

42 points by MaxLeiter 5y ago

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indigodaddy 5y ago
This is very interesting, nice work! Replit does hosting now for any language they support, so I’m surprised none of the sites were hosted there—- although I guess some could have been with Cloudflare in front..
- a9h74j 5y ago
  > Replit does hosting now for any language they support Wow, toy(?) http servers too: https://docs.replit.com/hosting/deploying-http-servers https://docs.replit.com/hosting/deploying-http-servers
- MaxLeiter 5y ago
  Do you know what headers I can use to identify repl.it? a quick `curl --head` tells me `replit-cluster` is an option but none of the scraped sites had that response header.
  - indigodaddy 5y ago
    Hi sorry I don’t know
retSava 5y ago
Suggestion: in the list of stats, after absolute numbers include a percentage, eg "Contains JavaScript: 567 (82%)". And, agree, very interesting and fun! Thanks for compiling and presenting it! edit: here they are! Contains JavaScript: 567 (81%) Github Pages: 146 (21%) Cloudflare: 141 (20%) Nginx: 114 (16%) Netlify: 83 (11%) Apache: 70 (10%) Vercel: 50 (7%) Bootstrap: 45 (6.5%) Gatsby: 30 (4.3%) Nextjs: 28 (4%) Amazon S3: 27 (3.9%) Wordpress: 22 (3.2%) Cloudfront: 17 (2.5%) Express: 16 (2.3%) PHP: 14 (2%) Caddy: 9 (1.3%) Litespeed: 8 (1.5%) Open Resty: 8 (1.5%) Google App Engine: 3 (0.43%) FlyIO: 3 (0.43%) MicorosftIIS: 3 (0.43%) Drupal: 2 (0.29%) Tailwind: 2 (0.29%) Lighttpd: 2 (0.29%) Godlighty: 1 (0.14%) Perl: 1 (0.14%) Neocities: 1 (0.14%) Asp.NET: 1 (0.14%) Gatsby Cloud: 1 (0.14%) Openbsd Httpd: 1 (0.14%)
- MaxLeiter 5y ago
  thanks! I added the percentages and attributed you in the post.
aheckler 5y ago
I believe the "x-nananana: Batcache" header is included on some/all WordPress sites hosted by Automattic. "curl -I https://automattic.com/ https://automattic.com/" returns it as well. Source: I work there. :)
egberts1 5y ago
wow, 21% of the personal websites are JavaScript-free. As one who studies uses of JavaScript in an unintended manner, I believe that this to be the correct direction of future Web. Heck, I even faked the HTTP version header to be an older Apache.
Bayart 5y ago
I'm surprised Caddy isn't more popular. I use it to serve my blog and reverse proxy a few services and it's completely hassle free. It's much better than nginx in that respect, especially if you include TLS termination.
aendruk 5y ago
no-dr-onboard 5y ago
I'm not the morality police, but I hope you reached out to that poor soul running an old version of Apache.
- MaxLeiter 5y ago
  Sadly they used a throwaway to make the comment and the site has no contact information
splitbrain 5y ago
Any chance you could release the raw data (including the URLs)? I am having trouble to get your typescript running.
- MaxLeiter 5y ago
  Here are the URLs from a scrape I just ran: https://paste.maxleiter.com/post/d64b6728-aa5d-4279-ad25-2f664ea776b4 https://paste.maxleiter.com/post/d64b6728-aa5d-4279-ad25-2f6... here are the headers and their values: https://paste.maxleiter.com/post/4d142a53-29d3-41ec-a29a-3e04f900a9ac https://paste.maxleiter.com/post/4d142a53-29d3-41ec-a29a-3e0...
  - splitbrain 5y ago
    excellent! thank you very much

42 points by MaxLeiter 5y ago

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This is very interesting, nice work! Replit does hosting now for any language they support, so I’m surprised none of the sites were hosted there—- although I guess some could have been with Cloudflare in front..

a9h74j 5y ago
> Replit does hosting now for any language they support Wow, toy(?) http servers too: https://docs.replit.com/hosting/deploying-http-servers https://docs.replit.com/hosting/deploying-http-servers
MaxLeiter 5y ago
Do you know what headers I can use to identify repl.it? a quick `curl --head` tells me `replit-cluster` is an option but none of the scraped sites had that response header.
- indigodaddy 5y ago
  Hi sorry I don’t know

retSava 5y ago

Suggestion: in the list of stats, after absolute numbers include a percentage, eg "Contains JavaScript: 567 (82%)". And, agree, very interesting and fun! Thanks for compiling and presenting it! edit: here they are! Contains JavaScript: 567 (81%) Github Pages: 146 (21%) Cloudflare: 141 (20%) Nginx: 114 (16%) Netlify: 83 (11%) Apache: 70 (10%) Vercel: 50 (7%) Bootstrap: 45 (6.5%) Gatsby: 30 (4.3%) Nextjs: 28 (4%) Amazon S3: 27 (3.9%) Wordpress: 22 (3.2%) Cloudfront: 17 (2.5%) Express: 16 (2.3%) PHP: 14 (2%) Caddy: 9 (1.3%) Litespeed: 8 (1.5%) Open Resty: 8 (1.5%) Google App Engine: 3 (0.43%) FlyIO: 3 (0.43%) MicorosftIIS: 3 (0.43%) Drupal: 2 (0.29%) Tailwind: 2 (0.29%) Lighttpd: 2 (0.29%) Godlighty: 1 (0.14%) Perl: 1 (0.14%) Neocities: 1 (0.14%) Asp.NET: 1 (0.14%) Gatsby Cloud: 1 (0.14%) Openbsd Httpd: 1 (0.14%)

MaxLeiter 5y ago
thanks! I added the percentages and attributed you in the post.

aheckler 5y ago

I believe the "x-nananana: Batcache" header is included on some/all WordPress sites hosted by Automattic. "curl -I https://automattic.com/ https://automattic.com/" returns it as well. Source: I work there. :)

egberts1 5y ago

wow, 21% of the personal websites are JavaScript-free. As one who studies uses of JavaScript in an unintended manner, I believe that this to be the correct direction of future Web. Heck, I even faked the HTTP version header to be an older Apache.

Bayart 5y ago

I'm surprised Caddy isn't more popular. I use it to serve my blog and reverse proxy a few services and it's completely hassle free. It's much better than nginx in that respect, especially if you include TLS termination.

aendruk 5y ago

no-dr-onboard 5y ago

I'm not the morality police, but I hope you reached out to that poor soul running an old version of Apache.

MaxLeiter 5y ago
Sadly they used a throwaway to make the comment and the site has no contact information

splitbrain 5y ago

Any chance you could release the raw data (including the URLs)? I am having trouble to get your typescript running.

MaxLeiter 5y ago
Here are the URLs from a scrape I just ran: https://paste.maxleiter.com/post/d64b6728-aa5d-4279-ad25-2f664ea776b4 https://paste.maxleiter.com/post/d64b6728-aa5d-4279-ad25-2f6... here are the headers and their values: https://paste.maxleiter.com/post/4d142a53-29d3-41ec-a29a-3e04f900a9ac https://paste.maxleiter.com/post/4d142a53-29d3-41ec-a29a-3e0...
- splitbrain 5y ago
  excellent! thank you very much