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Comment by AlecSchueler | Hacker News Reader

Not every video site has to be as robust as YouTube.

Who said anything about YouTube? This is just HN. This site is probably known for media consumption without paying full media prices just like Reddit. How do they expect to make money with this audience at least

Not everything needs to exist to serve a huge user base. If you bother looking at the archive.org capture linked elsewhere in this thread, you'd notice that this looks like a small little "fun" project hosted either by someone or a small group of people. They probably expect a certain level of traffic on average and planned accordingly.

So for them to go down one time because of a massive influx of traffic (something that is statistically very common to happen to sites of this size linked to from HN) and then have someone jump all the way to asking whether or not they even have "the business" existing?

Yeesh. Chill.

I’m not worked up over this but the instant negative strikes me as odd for a purely technical question related to how they plan to support traffic for a video site with free videos if they can’t handle a surge in traffic.

This may be a bad take but I'm always a bit surprised at how difficult it seems to be for people to host something that can take an influx of traffic. Are auto-scaling servers futuristic technology or something? Just about everything besides on-prem servers should have auto-scaling abilities, so why does it still seem so common for this type of thing to happen? I can't help but laugh at the irony when a software engineer's blog crashes from the HN hug of death.

I know next to nothing about devops, but I could spin up a docker container that serves a website and related videos. Trying to figure out how to get k8s to work for me while working on a side hustle sounds like a headache that would get in the way of actually pushing out a project.

i mean GP is right. what's the point of a media sharing website that can't sustain the traffic?

They provision resources to match their growth and average audience (plus some obviously). No need to judge them by some massive temporary spike due to a frontpage post that'll be gone in hours.

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