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Good thing HN is hosted on a couple servers in a basement. Much more reliable than cloud, it seems!
by pants2 1y ago
Good thing HN is hosted on a couple servers in a basement. Much more reliable than cloud, it seems!
- parliament32 1y agoAlways has been.
- lysace 1y agoIt was on AWS at least (for a while) in 2022. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32030400 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32030400
- jjice 1y agoYeah looks like they're back on M5. dang saying it's temporary: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32031136 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32031136 $ dig news.ycombinator.com ; <<>> DiG 9.10.6 <<>> news.ycombinator.com ;; global options: +cmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 54819 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1 ;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION: ; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 512 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;news.ycombinator.com. IN A ;; ANSWER SECTION: news.ycombinator.com. 1 IN A 209.216.230.207 ;; Query time: 79 msec ;; SERVER: 100.100.100.100#53(100.100.100.100) ;; WHEN: Wed Oct 29 13:59:29 EDT 2025 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 65 And that IP says it's with M5 again.
- dang 1y agoJust don't use genetically identical hardware: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32031639 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32031639 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32032235 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32032235 Edit: wow, I can't believe we hadn't put https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32031243 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32031243 in https://news.ycombinator.com/highlights https://news.ycombinator.com/highlights. Fixed now.
- airstrike 1y agoI love that "Ask HN: What'd you do while HN was down?" was a thing
- Cthulhu_ 1y agoMy plan B was going to the Stack Exchange homepage for some interesting threads but it got repetitive.
- gogusrl 1y agoI got burnt by this bug on freakin' Christmas Eve 2020 ( https://forum.hddguru.com/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=40766 https://forum.hddguru.com/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=40766 ). There was some data loss and a lot of lessons learned.
- hinkley 1y agoI’ve seen this up close twice and I’m surprised it’s only twice. Between March and September one year, 6 people on one team had to get new hard drives in their thinkpads and rebuild their systems. All from the same PO but doled out over the course of a project rampup. That was the first project where the onboarding docs were really really good, since we got a lot of practice in a short period of time. Long before that, the first raid array anyone set up for my (teams’) usage, arrived from Sun with 2 dead drives out of 10. They RMA’d us 2 more drives and one of those was also DOA. That was a couple years after Sun stopped burning in hardware for cost savings, which maybe wasn’t that much of a savings all things considered.
- praccu 1y agoMany years ago (13?), I was around when Amazon moved SABLE from RAM to SSDs. A whole rack came from a single batch, and something like 128 disks went out at once. I was an intern but everyone seemed very stressed.
- Cthulhu_ 1y agoMan I hit something like that once, a SSD had a firmware bug where it would stop working at an exact number of hours.