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Hug of death :(

yorwba 1y ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20250920113525/https://furilabs.com/flx1s-is-launched/ https://web.archive.org/web/20250920113525/https://furilabs....
- input_sh 1y ago
  Actually useful archive link: https://web.archive.org/web/20250920071806/https://furilabs.com/shop/flx1s/ https://web.archive.org/web/20250920071806/https://furilabs.... > The FLX1s from Furi Labs runs a fully optimized Linux system called FuriOS, packing a lightning fast user interface, 3 hardware switches for microphone, camera and modem/gps, and a privacy centric approach like no other.
eps 1y ago
Seems to be working fine.
- pessimizer 1y ago
  https://furilabs.com/shop/flx1s https://furilabs.com/shop/flx1s "Error establishing a database connection" So it only works fine if you don't care what a FLX1s is.
  - eps 1y ago
    The whole site was fast and responsive for me, this page included.
taminka 1y ago
how does that happen btw? like it's understandable when a website is hosted on a vape (lol), but even a cheap vps should be able to handle like 10-20k views in the span of a couple hours (which is the max load from HN i'm assuming), unless you're hosting video or some such
- RALaBarge 1y ago
  It depends! You can make a website with a static text file or you can make a video run as the background. There are more ways to mess it up than to get it right, actually.
- tazjin 1y ago
  Serve even statical pages with direct DB access on every hit, using some slow and bloated JS/Python backend, and voila.
  - Aachen 1y ago
    I use a blog that does three 'direct' (do you mean synchronous?) database queries for every pageview. Language was PHP5 (I feel like 7 got a lot faster but didn't do benchmarks so idk). Standard WAMP stack, renders in about 35 milliseconds on 2001 (sic) hardware iirc, and the HN homepage is very comfortably under 10 requests per second, so it's idling most of the time. Database queries and interpreted languages aren't an issue at all. You need to be majorly unprepared to not be able to handle HN load. What I think people might overlook is that there will be other news outlets and social media that link to their website also. So it's hard to pass a verdict, though someone mentioned it's WordPress in a sibling comment so... I'd put my money on that it's poorly optimised but we can't really know I guess
- kouteiheika 1y ago
  > how does that happen btw? People write their sites in slow languages "because it's I/O bound anyway" and put content which could easily be static in a DB.
  - Filligree 1y ago
    A slow DB. If you were to use Redis as a backing store… Then you’d almost certainly be overcomplicating things, but it shouldn’t be slow.
  - kelvinjps 1y ago
    Slow? But this site should have been written in just html and CSS

Hug of death :(

https://web.archive.org/web/20250920113525/https://furilabs.com/flx1s-is-launched/ https://web.archive.org/web/20250920113525/https://furilabs....

input_sh 1y ago
Actually useful archive link: https://web.archive.org/web/20250920071806/https://furilabs.com/shop/flx1s/ https://web.archive.org/web/20250920071806/https://furilabs.... > The FLX1s from Furi Labs runs a fully optimized Linux system called FuriOS, packing a lightning fast user interface, 3 hardware switches for microphone, camera and modem/gps, and a privacy centric approach like no other.

eps 1y ago

Seems to be working fine.

pessimizer 1y ago
https://furilabs.com/shop/flx1s https://furilabs.com/shop/flx1s "Error establishing a database connection" So it only works fine if you don't care what a FLX1s is.
- eps 1y ago
  The whole site was fast and responsive for me, this page included.

taminka 1y ago

how does that happen btw? like it's understandable when a website is hosted on a vape (lol), but even a cheap vps should be able to handle like 10-20k views in the span of a couple hours (which is the max load from HN i'm assuming), unless you're hosting video or some such

RALaBarge 1y ago
It depends! You can make a website with a static text file or you can make a video run as the background. There are more ways to mess it up than to get it right, actually.
tazjin 1y ago
Serve even statical pages with direct DB access on every hit, using some slow and bloated JS/Python backend, and voila.
- Aachen 1y ago
  I use a blog that does three 'direct' (do you mean synchronous?) database queries for every pageview. Language was PHP5 (I feel like 7 got a lot faster but didn't do benchmarks so idk). Standard WAMP stack, renders in about 35 milliseconds on 2001 (sic) hardware iirc, and the HN homepage is very comfortably under 10 requests per second, so it's idling most of the time. Database queries and interpreted languages aren't an issue at all. You need to be majorly unprepared to not be able to handle HN load. What I think people might overlook is that there will be other news outlets and social media that link to their website also. So it's hard to pass a verdict, though someone mentioned it's WordPress in a sibling comment so... I'd put my money on that it's poorly optimised but we can't really know I guess
kouteiheika 1y ago
> how does that happen btw? People write their sites in slow languages "because it's I/O bound anyway" and put content which could easily be static in a DB.
- Filligree 1y ago
  A slow DB. If you were to use Redis as a backing store… Then you’d almost certainly be overcomplicating things, but it shouldn’t be slow.
- kelvinjps 1y ago
  Slow? But this site should have been written in just html and CSS