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How much do you think it costs to keep News.YCombinator.com operating?

• Scrappy 14y ago
  Considering it is the top 1091 most frequented site according to Alexa and it is running a lot of Chron jobs, I can not imagine it is a trivial expense to keep it up and going?
  • aviraldg 14y ago
    A lot of "chron" jobs? err...
    • sejje 14y ago
      Maybe "Damn you, Autocorrect?" Way to add value.
    • Scrappy 14y ago
      cronjobs.. sorry
• staunch 14y ago
  I'd guess it's $300-$500/mo since it's just on one server last I saw. It's a relatively simple site, running on a very fast language (Arc->MzScheme), with liberal use of caching. There really aren't that many sites you couldn't run off a single server if you really wanted to. A really beefy server today is more capable than a dozen from just a few years ago.
  • Scrappy 14y ago
    WOW.. thanks for the input.. i would have guessed a lot more..