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And the reason that works is because HN is mostly hosted on its own stuff, without weird dependencies on anything beyond "the servers being up" and "TCP mostly

by Syonyk 4y ago

And the reason that works is because HN is mostly hosted on its own stuff, without weird dependencies on anything beyond "the servers being up" and "TCP mostly working."

EddySchauHai 4y ago
I believe it's on AWS after its two servers broke at the same time the other day.
- jffry 4y ago
  Yep $ host news.ycombinator.com news.ycombinator.com has address 50.112.136.166 $ host 50.112.136.166 166.136.112.50.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer ec2-50-112-136-166.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com.
- dang 4y ago
  Temporarily, yes.