terramex[0] posted[1] this link - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28479595 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28479595 wherein dang[2] links to https://n

terramex[0] posted[1] this link - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28479595 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28479595 wherein dang[2] links to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16076041 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16076041, itself a comment from sctb[3] saying they're running 4M requests a day from a Xeon E5-2637 running FreeBSD with mirrored SSD for the site, and mirrored spinny for logs That post doesn't say how much memory they were running in 2018 (I'll guess 32G, which is probably about right for a dual-core CPU or that era[4]), but an as-close-to-similarly-specced phsyical box from Hetzner[5] (6 core, 64G RAM, mirrored 1TB NVMe, mirrored 2TB spinny) is currently € 64.26 per month (68+change in Germany vs Finland) with 20TB transfer per month (if you add-on the 10G uplink, unlimited (within fair use policies) on the 1gbit connection) With 4M requests/day (let's even triple that to 12M/day now), at 10k per request (a ridiculously high guess, I'm sure), that's only 40-120GB/day tops in egressed data (or 1.2-36TB per month) HN's a pretty cheap thing to run, as far as hardware and hosting is concerned :) ------------ [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=terramex https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=terramex [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32466789 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32466789 [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=dang https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=dang [3] https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=sctb https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=sctb [4] https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/64598/intel-xeon-processor-e52637-5m-cache-3-00-ghz-8-00-gts-intel-qpi.html https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/64598/i... [5] https://www.hetzner.com/dedicated-rootserver/ax51-nvme/configurator#/ https://www.hetzner.com/dedicated-rootserver/ax51-nvme/confi...