On: Ask HN: Why Is My VPN's IPs Blocked from Hacker News?

[ploggingdev]

> Since our app server runs on a single core

Wow. Couple of questions :

* where is the server hosted and do you have a db server and maybe a cache server as well? What are the specs of the server?

* how much traffic does HN receive? Daily or monthly hits.

> Some big improvements which we've been working on for months will hopefully roll out soonish

If you're allowed to talk about it, what are the improvements?

[sctb → ploggingdev]

We’re recently running two machines (master and standby) at M5 Hosting. All of HN runs on a single box, nothing exotic:

  CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2637 v4 @ 3.50GHz (3500.07-MHz K8-class CPU)
  FreeBSD/SMP: 2 package(s) x 4 core(s) x 2 hardware threads
  Mirrored SSDs for data, mirrored magnetic for logs (UFS)

We get around 4M requests a day.