Comcast Decided To Shut Down SearchYC

[iheartmemcache]

This service is a major component of this community; as such, I'll host this on whatever metal you need. My contact information is in my profile. Ping me on G-talk and we can have this sorted out by the morning (if you're in PST).

[mkuhn]

I also have some spare capacity that our startup could donate. Something like one i920 Core and a few Gigs of Ram (and up to a Terrabyte of Traffic). If that could help, let me know.

[timsally]

Ditto for me as well if necessary.

[kapitalx]

Just guessing, but they might have been hosting off a comcast highspeed line which Comcast forbids on its residential service.

[NathanKP]

Yeah, that was my first thought as well. Comcast (at least in my area) is primarily a provider of internet service to homes, not a server hosting company, so if Comcast was able to shut SearchYC down then that means it must have been hosted from a home internet connection.

[bkrausz]

What kind of traffic does SearchYC get? Is a $40/mo Linode not sufficient? I would gladly pay that (or be content with some Google ads in the right bar). Hell, I'd even maintain the site...it's a great service.

[anigbrowl]

Well, that wasn't very informative. I suspect an unpaid bill or similar, to be honest.

[iamwil]

I use hnsearch.com, powered by beta backend magic by the Octopart guys. I find it to be quite fast and quite good.

[synnik]

This has always bugged me - as owner of a product, YOU are ultimately responsible for its availability. If you chose a bad service provider, sure, you'll have outages. But accept accountability, say you are working on it, and fix it.

[scott_s]

This has always bugged me - the sense of entitlement people have when a free service experiences an outage. The people behind SearchYC are doing us a favor. They should be thanked, not reprimanded.

So, uh, thanks. I've used SearchYC many-a-times.

[Goladus]

I don't really see much blame in that post. Comcast shut down searchyc. That's the simplest true explanation for what happened.

It's sad.

That's the extent to which they dwell on the issue.

[yid]

Um...why was it being hosted off Comcast, instead of Linode (for example)?

[mmx]

As a user of Comcast Business Class for some hosting, it's more about what's available near you. I host some of servers in my garage, I like to manage them manually and Comcast is the only option in my area, I pay $110 for 10down & 2.5up, but some locations they have 100mb connections for that same price. What I'd like to know is why Comcast shut it down so I can either avoid this happening to me or drop comcast for a datacenter 110 miles away. Its difficult hosting a site at my current bandwidth anyways.

[shrike]

I've got plenty of Linode, prgmr and EC2 cycles to spare, you are welcome to any/all of them. My contact info is in my profile, please get in touch if I can help.

[ssamuli]

After searchyc went down, I've just used google, adding "site:news.ycombinator.com" after my query. Seems to return quite good results too.

[hollerith]

Searchyc will arrange the results of a search in chronological order, which I find very useful since the date I saw the post is one of the most reliable pieces of information I will typically have on the post.

[g123g]

Hopfully you will be able to bring it back soon. SearchYC.com is the best way to search the treasure trove that HN has become.

[swombat]

What's wrong with http://www.hnsearch.com ?

[evangineer]

Just got zero hits on a search that I know there is at least one result for. Same search worked fine on searchyc.com a few days ago.

EDIT: Google search using site:news.ycombinator.com just now delivered the result I was expecting.

[danielnicollet]

yep or http://searchhackernews.com/

[thethimble]

Why doesn't HN have native search?

[nandemo]

Basically pg doesn't think it's important and doesn't want to do it.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1329334

[stevenj]

I may be wrong about this, but I thought I heard PG say that a YC company was working on a solution.

[iamwil]

cuz pg doesn't need to work on it, when lots of us do.

[tonyskn]

The awesome Chrome extension Hacker News Sidebar, which uses searchyc.com, is down too. Are there any alternative extensions or bookmarklets for automatically linking a page to its HN comment thread?

[smackfu]

Yet another outage message that says nothing. Is it really that hard to write a few more sentences, maybe quote the Comcast reason for shutting it down? Were they running the server on a residential line or something? Using too much upstream bandwidth? This is a search engine for a technical community, we can handle it.

[meiji]

Like lots of others, I can help with hosting (work at a big hoster). Ping me a message if I can assist

[nicksergeant]

Never knew this existed. Using "site:news.ycombinator.com" in Google works perfectly fine for me.

[mbesto]

Just curious - anyone know why?

[zackattack]

WePay needs to transform into something that say, Linode can offer as a payment option.