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Comment by almostarockstar | Hacker News Reader

Using wordpress as a CMS would be quite suitable. I would assume what makes more than 'just another wordpress site' will the back end. Load balancing, caching etc.

I would have expected a custom landing page though.

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DNS for the domain only has a 300 second TTL. The site can easily be pointed somewhere else before the launch.

  ;; QUESTION SECTION:
  ;upvoted.com.                   IN      A

  ;; ANSWER SECTION:
  upvoted.com.            300     IN      A       192.0.79.33
  upvoted.com.            300     IN      A       192.0.79.32

Seems they are indeed using Wordpress (based on the page source). The real site is here: https://redditupvoted.wordpress.com/ - I think you'll find they're using existing plugins for load-balancing and caching. I don't know specifics though, so a fair bit could be custom but it seems to me 90% of this site was probably design and 10% development.

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