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I’d love to know more about what running a site like HN involves, would be great to get a write up of what it’s like running something like this at this scale (and what kind of traffic you guys get)!

>>andy_p+(OP)
I can’t put my finger on anything within the last decade, but I seem to recall it running in something close to its current form on a single core on a single server for a long time:

>>5229522

Re: traffic, dang said (2022):

>>33454140

I took it as a good reminder that the hard part is the human part: that high-overhead features and UI fripperies are nice but not necessary (or sufficient) to keep a community healthy and vibrant over the decades.

(And on the subject of the human side, if you didn’t catch Anna Wiener’s 2019 profile, it’s here:

https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-silicon-valley/th... )

>>alwa+83
The other reality is that as much as this industry is up its ass about scalability you can run a very very busy site on a single machine now a days.

A lot of people out here designing their blogs like its 1989.

>>alwa+83
From dang's 2022 comment about traffic:

The most interesting number is the 1300 submissions because that hasn't grown since 2011 - it just fluctuates. Everything else has been growing more or less linearly for a long time, which is how we like it.

I find that surprising, as 2011-2022 covers an exponential rise in SEO spam and "growth hackers" attempting to drive traffic and links.

Or was 1,300 the number of non-flagged submissions?

>>ilamon+M8
Nope, total submissions. And it's still very much within that same window!

>>tempes+j8
This is completely wrong, everyone knows you should rewrite everything in microservices immediately :-D