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For all the flak HN gets about fnid problems, etc, it's still awe-inspiring to me that such a popular site runs on a single server, with so little admintime ;)

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• brador 14y ago
  Just how popular is HN? Anyone got info on uniques or pageviews a month?
  • GuiA 14y ago
    As of October 5th 2011: "Also, a traffic update: HN now gets over 120k unique ips on a weekday, and serves over 1.3 million page views." http://ycombinator.com/newsnews.html http://ycombinator.com/newsnews.html Additionally: http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/ycombinator.com http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/ycombinator.com
    • batgaijin 14y ago
      don't you dare mention alexa stats here
      • GuiA 14y ago
        Why? (genuine question)
        • thejosh 14y ago
          They are known to be very wrong.
  • pg 14y ago
    We currently get just over 200k uniques and just under 2m page views on weekdays (less on weekends).
    • douglasisshiny 14y ago
      Thank you for creating a wonderful source of information!
    • pitchups 14y ago
      Does a single server support this level of traffic? That is pretty impressive - it would be great to learn about the server's hardware and software configuration.
      • pasbesoin 14y ago
        I don't know whether things have changed since, but some time ago (a year or more?), IIRC pg mentioned that the site was running on a single core. (I don't recall his saying what type of core.) P.S. I see that abstractbill beat me to it, both in stating here and in originally acquiring this information: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5229548 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5229548
      • jbverschoor 14y ago
        Around 40-60 requests per second, of which almost anything an be cached. Any single server should suffice.
        • markokocic 14y ago
          But you would need at least 30 Heroku dynos to handle that reliably ;)
      • rtm 14y ago
        Old server: two Xeon E5450 chips, 3.0 GHz, 8 cores total, 24 GB RAM. New server: one Xeon E5-2690 chip, 2.9 GHz, 8 cores total, 32 GB RAM.
        • rdl 14y ago
          Wow, nice, that was exactly the HW I was predicting; the fastest single-core-performance xeon under turboboost.