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> HN is built using a homebrew stack, it's a miracle it performs as well as it does. Surely it'd be sloppy oversight if the HN site couldn't be hosted on a hom
by willvarfar 15y ago
> HN is built using a homebrew stack, it's a miracle it performs as well as it does.
Surely it'd be sloppy oversight if the HN site couldn't be hosted on a homebrew stack?
People seem to imagine you need a constellation of mongo and load balancers and everything else just as a baseline for a helloworld web-app.
Paul rocks.
- jacquesm 15y agoHN traffic is pretty high. Also, I believe that RTM had a hand in optimizing HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2120756 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2120756 And comparing HN to a helloworld web-app is simplifying things a bit, the fact that it is sparsely designed does not mean there isn't a significant amount of work done under the hood.