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Comment by NhanH | Hacker News Reader

That's a magnitude bigger than I thought it should. Guess it's time to move on!

J/K, is it possible to share what kind of hardware is HN running on?

HN runs on a single, not so beefy server:

  FreeBSD 10.1
  Nginx 1.7.10
  Racket 6.1.1 with some HN and FreeBSD specific patches.

  2x 3GHz Intel Xeon-IvyBridge (E5-2690-V2-DecaCore)
  8x16GB Kingston 16GB DDR3 2Rx4
  SuperMicro X9DRI-LN4F+_R1.2A
  Adaptec 71605
  9x 1000GB Western Digital WD RE4
  2x 200GB Smart XceedIOPS SSD

Just redefine "the community" to be the logged-in users and poof, now it's the magnitude you expected.

Pretty much all I know about the hardware is that HN runs on a single core on a capacious server. Perhaps kogir will show up to say more.

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