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Yes, should be a lot faster. We're now just trying to kill the old one cleanly...

• kirubakaran 18y ago
  It definitely feels much faster. Thanks again pg!
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  • kirubakaran 18y ago
    "for now" would be my guess. But if Obama mentions us on his State of the Union...
• pg 18y ago
  Looks like everything went well. Handy having Robert Morris as your sysadmin. The new server seems to be about 2x as fast. The frontpage renders for me in about 50 msec. But the site should seem more than 2x faster (for logged-in users) because many requests will terminate before being interrupted. There's now enough memory that we can fit all the links and comments in memory at once again. We should be good for another year or so.
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  • aaronblohowiak 18y ago
    Thanks! Also, for those of us who don't know who Robert Morris is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Tappan_Morris http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Tappan_Morris * MIT Prof * creator of first internet worm * cofounder of viaweb and ycombinator
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    • cperciva 18y ago
      former chief scientist at the National Computer Security Center, a division of the National Security Agency That's rtm's father, not rtm.
      • aaronblohowiak 18y ago
        Thanks, updated.
      • alecco 18y ago
        Man, what I'd give to have a chat one day with RTM. So many questions. :)
        • cperciva 18y ago
          As a cryptographer, I'd rather talk to RM senior -- but as an NSA alumnus, I don't think he'd want to talk to me. :-)
        • pg 18y ago
          Apply to YC, and if you make it to interviews you can get grilled by him in person.
          • tdavis 18y ago
            I seem to recall most exchanges going thusly: pg: Robert, do you have anything to add? rtm: No. Though he did talk during the interview. In this age of Twitter he's my hero.
• breck 18y ago
  Are you planning on pointing the domain to the new server or just using 174.132.225.106? It could solve the growth problem, perhaps?
  • pg 18y ago
    news.ycombinator.com already points to the new ip address. The message with that ip addr in it will only be seen by people who still have the old ip cached in their browser. (Obviously for them we have to refer to the new server by its ip addr.)