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Nothing is wrong with hosting on bare metal. However, this site doesn't host images or videos, tracking for Internet ads, etc. Instead, it is a text-driven old-
by nixcraft 4y ago
Nothing is wrong with hosting on bare metal. However, this site doesn't host images or videos, tracking for Internet ads, etc. Instead, it is a text-driven old-school site (I believe hosted on FreeBSD). Must be light on resources. It is super fast. I am sure they have some caching in place too. HN's business model is different from typical websites. They are part of YC, which is how it can sustain itself.
- abudabi123 4y agoCould HN's value be measured in dollars per eighty column character line of text and the sourceware to presentation stack likewise? I've seen numbers floated in the range $1000 to $400 per line for mixed critical sourceware platform such as seL4 microkernel.