points by Amfy 3 years ago

Interesting though, HN is now hosted on AWS and no longer on bare metal (m5 hosting).

% host news.ycombinator.com

news.ycombinator.com has address 50.112.136.166

and also interesting: DNS TTL is set to 1 (one).

bestinterest 3 years ago

Oh that is interesting, I guess they just spun up a beefy EC2 instance. I'm noticing slower performance, I used to get about <200ms for front page. Now it's 500ms-1s? Or is this placebo with my bias to thinking AWS is slow?

    NetRange:       50.112.0.0 - 50.112.255.255
    CIDR:           50.112.0.0/16
    NetName:        AMAZON-EC2-USWESTOR
    NetHandle:      NET-50-112-0-0-1
    Parent:         NET50 (NET-50-0-0-0-0)
    NetType:        Direct Allocation
    OriginAS:       AS14618
    Organization:   Amazon.com, Inc. (AMAZO-47)
  • doublerabbit 3 years ago

    I hope it's temporary. Would hate HN to move to the "cloud" from bare metal.

    • GekkePrutser 3 years ago

      This, totally.

      It's great that they were able to spin it up in the cloud for recovery purposes. But it's more legendary on a real server <3

      Yes I'm old :P

    • dang 3 years ago

      Us too.