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As of 2 years ago, it was hosted on a "3.0 GHz Core whatever, 12 GB RAM, 64-bit FreeBSD 7.1" - it's certainly not a shared machine. (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=516122)

rtm is the sysadmin for HN (yes, that rtm: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Tappan_Morris).

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> rtm is the sysadmin for HN (yes, that rtm: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Tappan_Morris)

It always makes me laugh when someone with no knowledge of a website offers advice to that site's sysadmin. It's especially funny when that sysadmin is of the calibre of RTM.

IIRC, pg said that ycombinator.com (which is where all of HN's static content is served from) was on shared hosting.

It looks like ycombinator.com is hosted by SliceHost (http://www.whoishostingthis.com/ycombinator.com).

It seems to be on SliceHost (if nothing changed in the mean time) - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1283430.

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