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Depends what you want to get to. HN doesn't use any centralised services. If someone chooses to host their service relying on a single unreliable point of fail
by ta1243 3y ago
Depends what you want to get to. HN doesn't use any centralised services.
If someone chooses to host their service relying on a single unreliable point of failure that's on them. Plenty more hosts on the web.
- djbusby 3y agoIsn't HN centralized on like two servers in CA?
- solardev 3y ago> Depends what you want to get to. HN doesn't use any centralised services. It's also one of the least reliable and performant public forums I've ever used. It goes down or slows down several times a week for me. Wish they'd just move it to the cloud instead of occasionally upgrading the bare metal...
- inemesitaffia 3y agoThey used AWS when they had lost their SSD's
- shanemhansen 3y agoWell technically they do, but honestly the number of companies that need to worry about redundant DNS is probably .001%. It does matter for the some people, but as someone from SRE once said "100% availability is the wrong target for basically everything". dig SOA news.ycombinator.com ; <<>> DiG 9.18.16-1-Debian <<>> SOA news.ycombinator.com ;; global options: +cmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 10818 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 1 ;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION: ; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 512 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;news.ycombinator.com. IN SOA ;; AUTHORITY SECTION: ycombinator.com. 900 IN SOA ns-225.awsdns-28.com. awsdns-hostmaster.amazon.com. 1 7200 900 1209600 86400 ;; Query time: 39 msec ;; SERVER: 127.0.0.1#53(127.0.0.1) (UDP) ;; WHEN: Wed Oct 25 10:52