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meeb | 3 months ago

Because HN doesn't use Cloudflare.

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chistev|3 months ago

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

Bender|3 months ago

HN sometimes rarely is pointed to AWS when under attack.

us0r|3 months ago

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.

ardfard|3 months ago

Does HN self-host too?

ArcHound|3 months ago

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!

sph|3 months ago

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

/s

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

Iulioh|3 months ago

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