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There was a post about it recently (advising that there would be downtime) - they've upgraded. It's considerably quicker now!

neeee 14y ago
That was for Saturday morning.
- pyre 14y ago
  Obviously the new server has some growing pains. :P Just because the switch-over went smoothly doesn't mean that normal operations didn't fall apart later on.
- gabriel34 14y ago
  But saturday morning the site was up Perhaps the server upgrade was delayed or something went wrong with it.
  - neeee 14y ago
    The site was down briefly saturday morning.
detst 14y ago
That was Saturday but appears to be related. PG posted this to Twitter[1]: Apologies for the HN outage. We think it may be related to the new server. This could take a while to fix. [1] https://twitter.com/paulg/status/303350671460147200 https://twitter.com/paulg/status/303350671460147200
level09 14y ago
isn't a bit long for a server upgrade ? shouldn't be there better strategies for quick switching ?
- neilkelty 14y ago
  Are you paying for this?
  - lucb1e 14y ago
    What would you say if Google.com was down for 2 hours due to a server upgrade? Do you pay Google for searching? Bonus points if you do actually. Their search API is limited to 100 a day, which is not a lot.
    - shawnz 14y ago
      If you're using google search, you're paying google in ad impressions.
      - icebraining 14y ago
        And what do you think these[1] are? HN has ads, they're just less conspicuous. [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/jobs https://news.ycombinator.com/jobs
        oijaf888 14y ago
        Aren't those free for Y Combinator companies? Also you could just say the entire site is an ad for Y Combinator.
  - level09 14y ago
    This actually confirmed my thought, it was not a money related issue .. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5239673 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5239673
- viraptor 14y ago
  Yes they are and they're applied to critical systems. I doubt HN is regarded as such. Especially if it would require splitting backend/frontend servers and replicating both to do step by step upgrade of each component. Alternatively you know... you can just accept that the service will be down for an hour or two and most people wouldn't even notice without this post.
supercoder 14y ago
Though do wonder if it being quicker has something to do with everyone getting bored of refreshing it.
gabriele 14y ago
original pg's announcement: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5229364 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5229364

neeee 14y ago

That was for Saturday morning.

pyre 14y ago
Obviously the new server has some growing pains. :P Just because the switch-over went smoothly doesn't mean that normal operations didn't fall apart later on.
gabriel34 14y ago
But saturday morning the site was up Perhaps the server upgrade was delayed or something went wrong with it.
- neeee 14y ago
  The site was down briefly saturday morning.

detst 14y ago

That was Saturday but appears to be related. PG posted this to Twitter[1]: Apologies for the HN outage. We think it may be related to the new server. This could take a while to fix. [1] https://twitter.com/paulg/status/303350671460147200 https://twitter.com/paulg/status/303350671460147200

level09 14y ago

isn't a bit long for a server upgrade ? shouldn't be there better strategies for quick switching ?

neilkelty 14y ago
Are you paying for this?
- lucb1e 14y ago
  What would you say if Google.com was down for 2 hours due to a server upgrade? Do you pay Google for searching? Bonus points if you do actually. Their search API is limited to 100 a day, which is not a lot.
  - shawnz 14y ago
    If you're using google search, you're paying google in ad impressions.
    - icebraining 14y ago
      And what do you think these[1] are? HN has ads, they're just less conspicuous. [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/jobs https://news.ycombinator.com/jobs
      - oijaf888 14y ago
        Aren't those free for Y Combinator companies? Also you could just say the entire site is an ad for Y Combinator.
- level09 14y ago
  This actually confirmed my thought, it was not a money related issue .. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5239673 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5239673
viraptor 14y ago
Yes they are and they're applied to critical systems. I doubt HN is regarded as such. Especially if it would require splitting backend/frontend servers and replicating both to do step by step upgrade of each component. Alternatively you know... you can just accept that the service will be down for an hour or two and most people wouldn't even notice without this post.

supercoder 14y ago

Though do wonder if it being quicker has something to do with everyone getting bored of refreshing it.

gabriele 14y ago

original pg's announcement: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5229364 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5229364