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Comment by JosephRedfern | Hacker News Reader

There was a post about it recently (advising that there would be downtime) - they've upgraded. It's considerably quicker now!

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That was Saturday but appears to be related. PG posted this to Twitter[1]:

  Apologies for the HN outage. We think it may be related
  to the new server. This could take a while to fix.

[1] https://twitter.com/paulg/status/303350671460147200

original pg's announcement:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5229364

Though do wonder if it being quicker has something to do with everyone getting bored of refreshing it.

That was for Saturday morning.

Obviously the new server has some growing pains. :P

Just because the switch-over went smoothly doesn't mean that normal operations didn't fall apart later on.

But saturday morning the site was up Perhaps the server upgrade was delayed or something went wrong with it.

The site was down briefly saturday morning.

isn't a bit long for a server upgrade ? shouldn't be there better strategies for quick switching ?

Are you paying for this?

What would you say if Google.com was down for 2 hours due to a server upgrade? Do you pay Google for searching?

Bonus points if you do actually. Their search API is limited to 100 a day, which is not a lot.

If you're using google search, you're paying google in ad impressions.

And what do you think these[1] are? HN has ads, they're just less conspicuous.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/jobs

Aren't those free for Y Combinator companies? Also you could just say the entire site is an ad for Y Combinator.

This actually confirmed my thought, it was not a money related issue ..

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5239673

Yes they are and they're applied to critical systems. I doubt HN is regarded as such. Especially if it would require splitting backend/frontend servers and replicating both to do step by step upgrade of each component.

Alternatively you know... you can just accept that the service will be down for an hour or two and most people wouldn't even notice without this post.

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