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I like how they refer to reddit as a "FreeBSD box." My guess is that it's something much, much larger now.
by homosaur 15y ago
I like how they refer to reddit as a "FreeBSD box." My guess is that it's something much, much larger now.
- baddox 15y agoHe also says "the reddit code itself is not incredibly complex," which I imagine is less true now.
- Splenivore 15y agoThere’s no need to leave it to imagination: https://github.com/reddit/reddit https://github.com/reddit/reddit
- baddox 15y agoRight, but I don't know how complex it was at that time in the past.
- xxpor 15y agoDoes EC2 offer FreeBSD?
- getsat 15y agoNot officially. cperciva (HN username), FreeBSD security guy, maintains some AMIs for it: http://www.daemonology.net/freebsd-on-ec2/ http://www.daemonology.net/freebsd-on-ec2/
- jedberg 15y agoYes, it is different. At the time he wrote that, there was literally one hosted FreeBSD box running all of reddit. It was called... 1.reddit.com. Eventually the database had to be moved to a separate machine called... 2.reddit.com. reddit now runs on a few hundred Ubuntu EC2 instances.