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Yeah my search engine, back when it was hosted on a PC in my living room off domestic broadband would shrug off HN[1][2] without the fans even spinning faster t
by marginalia_nu 3y ago
Yeah my search engine, back when it was hosted on a PC in my living room off domestic broadband would shrug off HN[1][2] without the fans even spinning faster than usual.
And like, internet search should be more resource heavy than the sort of websites that regularly do keel over to HN. Every query is like up to 50 MB in disk reads.
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28550764 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28550764
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35611923 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35611923
- Nextgrid 3y agoThe shift to cloud-based workloads (with oversubscribed CPUs and mandatory networked storage) means that a lot of people lost track of just how fast physical hardware (even mid-range consumer-grade) has become.
- paulmd 3y agoThat’s also a deliberate thing - cloud providers have consciously avoided increasing the per-unit performance of a vcpu, you still get the same Sandy Bridge performance in 2024 as you did in 2012. They actually go all the way to the extent of having AMD design them smaller, higher-density “cloud” cores that don’t clock as high, to avoid ever increasing that vcpu unit.