hn is mostly a single process application, so dedicated hardware is really the only way they can scale performance (and adding stuff in front like a proxy, clou

hn is mostly a single process application, so dedicated hardware is really the only way they can scale performance (and adding stuff in front like a proxy, cloudflare, etc.) They even went out of their way to get the fastest single core xeon possible, which is a fairly mid-range CPU, singe they care about process performance vs. overall.