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Impressive. What's your tech stack? How are you able to keep the cost so low?

• berkle4455 4y ago
  php, nginx, mariadb (mysql). The stack that continues to deliver robust, low-cost, and reliable solutions yet HN shits on it at every opportunity.
  • bawolff 4y ago
    It really is impressive how versatile that stack is, both on the low end and high. Wikipedia is also basically that stack too (just with apache instead, and varnish/ATS playing an important role)
  • intelVISA 4y ago
    nginx is decent to be fair
    • account42 4y ago
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• bakugo 4y ago
  Assuming it hasn't changed in the past 2 years: > nginx, latest php, mariadb. > and of less importance: memcached and influxdb. https://twitter.com/thexpaw/status/1315941483867000833 https://twitter.com/thexpaw/status/1315941483867000833
  • xPaw 4y ago
    That's still correct.
    • nabakin 4y ago
      What host do you use?
      • xPaw 4y ago
        Hetzner.
        • nabakin 4y ago
          Ty
        • rexreed 4y ago
          I'd love to learn how you managed to scale on a single server - other than the above, any tips or tricks? I'm also a PHP guy on Ngnix with MySQL but want to know what tips you might have for a dynamic (non-static) site to handle such scale on a single server
          • umen 4y ago
            me also , how can it be 1 server ? how do you protect DDos attacks?
            • arejaytee 4y ago
              They use cloudflare in front, they do the heavy lifting.
          • bakugo 4y ago
            Equip your server with a decent CPU, enough RAM to allow MySQL to keep most of your database in it, and fast SSDs. Profile your code and optimize/cache anything that stands out as slow, aggressively cache data that is read often using memcached/redis/etc, use an http cache proxy like cloudflare in front to cache static assets (and maybe pages that aren't dynamic for every user)
  • nabakin 4y ago
    Thanks!
  • pastor_bob 4y ago
    When's the Next.js migration?