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by ecshafer 941 days ago
Its early West coast time, dang has to wake up first.
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boringg 941 days ago
I bet he's up making sure the servers aren't crashing! Thanks dang! As the west coast wakes up .. HN is going to be busy...
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imiric 940 days ago
It's _a_ server, a single-core one at that.

I get that HN takes pride in the amount of traffic that poor server can handle, but scaling out is long overdue. Every time there's a small surge of traffic like today, the site becomes unusable.

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