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Robert has made a bunch of tweaks that improved performance. To be honest I don't remember what they were. We're still running on one core.
by pg 14y ago
Robert has made a bunch of tweaks that improved performance. To be honest I don't remember what they were. We're still running on one core.
- danwiding 14y agoPoint of comparison, as of March 2011 Stack Overflow, which got about 2x the traffic for page hits/month, used 12 cores for the web tier and 12-24 cores for their SQL Server 2008 database(s?). Source - http://highscalability.com/blog/2011/3/3/stack-overflow-architecture-update-now-at-95-million-page-vi.html http://highscalability.com/blog/2011/3/3/stack-overflow-arch... Does anyone know what db engine serves as backend for HN?
- robryan 14y agoA Stack Overflow page I'd imagine would be so much more complex than a Hacker News page to render. Would likely require lots of complex queries for everything going on around the primary question and answer mechanism. By contrast Hacker News seems fairly simple.
- pg 14y agoThe file system.
- SoftwareMaven 14y agoThese are the results of different constraints. SO wants a slick, interactive interface with a lot of access to long-tail content. HN wants inexpensive and easy-to-maintain that still allows discussion of active topics that fade from view fairly quickly.
- bluestix 14y agoWhy not put a banner ad at the bottom of the page? At 1.5M pageviews per day you could make enough to afford a decent dedicated server so the site wouldn't be painfully slow. You could use the extra to fund more startups.