How come HN is never down with all these outages?

HN is just one active and one standby server at M5 Computer Security running BSD.

pmlnr 11 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

There are things out there which are running from a bare metal host, without relying on someone else's computer (aka the cloud). HN is one of them.

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duckerduck 11 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

They stopped using Cloudflare some time ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18188832

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meeb 11 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Because HN doesn't use Cloudflare.

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chistev 11 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Also doesn't use AWS or Azure because it didn't go down with them either.

	▲	Bender 11 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		HN sometimes rarely is pointed to AWS when under attack.
	▲	us0r 11 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I thought the same until I started looking: Name Server: NS-225.AWSDNS-28.COM Name Server: NS-1411.AWSDNS-48.ORG Name Server: NS-1914.AWSDNS-47.CO.UK Name Server: NS-556.AWSDNS-05.NET At least for DNS. Data center appears to be Lightedge.

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ardfard 11 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Does HN self-host too?

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dang an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Yes, except when we've shot ourselves in both feet:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45750608

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ArcHound 11 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I'd love to read an article describing the HN setup. Seems that they got a lot of things right - self registration, influx of people during outages and plenty others. Admins, if you see this, please write about your craft!

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Akronymus 11 hours ago | parent [-]

I am pretty sure @dang wrote about it on here before, but I can't seem to find it.

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ArcHound 11 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Seems like so, these submissions from them look related, but not quite it:

- [Sorry I broke the server](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9052128)

- [New attempt at mobile markup](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10489499)

- [Clickable domains and QoL](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10223645)

- [New features and a moderator](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12073675)

- [Thanks to thehodge and littlewarden, this site is up today](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28472350)

Maybe one day. Seeing all of these big providers stumbling, an article about HN staying on top of everything would surely resonate.

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b2ccb2 11 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28478379 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27452276

	▲	ArcHound 11 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Thanks! Seems that's what we'll get as there are apparently serious money which can be made by knowing the guts of HN as per https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27454354.

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sph 9 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

How? It's literally impossible to run a major website these days without Cloudflare.

This is what you get for being lazy and choosing to making the internet more centralized.

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Iulioh 9 hours ago | parent [-]

Well, to be fair, while recognizing how influential it is, HN is not a major website lol

	▲	chistev 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		What counts as major? I estimate they get millions of hits here

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philipwhiuk 11 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

HN is running on the server the rest of the cloud rents time from.

The outages are the Roomba.

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rwaksmunski 11 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

FreeBSD on bare metal hooked up to a nice network.