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>>tpmx+(OP)
While the naysayers will say, "Why isn't this in the cloud?," I think the response times and uptime of hackernews is really impressive. If anyone has a write-up of the infrastructure that runs HN, I would be interested. Maybe startups really can be run off of a rasberry pi

>>olinge+S2
AWS has had more outages than HN in recent times

>>pyb+u3
AWS also operates at a significantly larger scale. When was the last AWS outage due to two critical disks failing at the same time?

>>mpyne+ge
Failures due to increasing complexity are still failures.