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Fair enough, I'm just assuming that even given the capability to parallelise, they probably just don't have the necessary amount of hardware provisioned to cope
by willismichael 14y ago
Fair enough, I'm just assuming that even given the capability to parallelise, they probably just don't have the necessary amount of hardware provisioned to cope with HN-magnitude traffic spikes.
- profquail 14y agoThe site seems to be running on AWS, so you're probably right. It's loading very quickly now though so I imagine they've upgraded to a bigger instance.
- jules 14y agoThat's hardly an excuse given that HN itself runs on 1 core, and just a fraction of that traffic will be going through to this post.
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