Comment by chistev

7 hours ago

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.

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.

Because HN doesn't use Cloudflare.

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

    • 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.

  • Does HN self-host too?

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

    /s

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

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