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Comment by meeb | Hacker News Reader

Because HN doesn't use Cloudflare.

Also doesn't use AWS or Azure because it didn't go down with them either.

I thought the same until I started looking:

Name Server: NS-225.AWSDNS-28.COM Name Server: NS-1411.AWSDNS-48.ORG Name Server: NS-1914.AWSDNS-47.CO.UK Name Server: NS-556.AWSDNS-05.NET

At least for DNS. Data center appears to be Lightedge.

HN sometimes rarely is pointed to AWS when under attack.

Does HN self-host too?

I'd love to read an article describing the HN setup. Seems that they got a lot of things right - self registration, influx of people during outages and plenty others. Admins, if you see this, please write about your craft!

I am pretty sure @dang wrote about it on here before, but I can't seem to find it.

Here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28478379 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27452276

Thanks! Seems that's what we'll get as there are apparently serious money which can be made by knowing the guts of HN as per https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27454354.

Seems like so, these submissions from them look related, but not quite it:

- [Sorry I broke the server](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9052128)

- [New attempt at mobile markup](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10489499)

- [Clickable domains and QoL](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10223645)

- [New features and a moderator](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12073675)

- [Thanks to thehodge and littlewarden, this site is up today](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28472350)

Maybe one day. Seeing all of these big providers stumbling, an article about HN staying on top of everything would surely resonate.

Yes, except when we've shot ourselves in both feet:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45750608

How? It's literally impossible to run a major website these days without Cloudflare.

This is what you get for being lazy and choosing to making the internet more centralized.

Well, to be fair, while recognizing how influential it is, HN is not a major website lol

What counts as major? I estimate they get millions of hits here

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