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That being said, is the actual production infra archi for HN described somewhere ? Curious how simple it can afford to be. We laugh at people piling layers and
by phtrivier 4y ago
That being said, is the actual production infra archi for HN described somewhere ? Curious how simple it can afford to be.
We laugh at people piling layers and layers and artifacts on their sites, all in the hope of adding redundancy, handle "webscale" load, and avoid an outage (ironically increasing the chances that _something_ will break).
However, if a single hard drive crashing somewhere can cause your site to be down for minutes or hours, some non-tech people (managers, shareholders, customers) will wonder if the site is "professionnal" enough - and I can sympathize with them.
- tomtom1337 4y agoFrom 2018: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16076041 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16076041> > We’re recently running two machines (master and standby) at M5 Hosting. All of HN runs on a single box, nothing exotic: CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2637 v4 @ 3.50GHz (3500.07-MHz K8-class CPU) FreeBSD/SMP: 2 package(s) x 4 core(s) x 2 hardware threads Mirrored SSDs for data, mirrored magnetic for logs (UFS) We get around 4M requests a day.
- irusensei 4y ago> FreeBSD/SMP Good choice. :)
- raverbashing 4y ago"Why are they using a freeware OS?" (: /s
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