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		theCrowing on Dec 29, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: How much does it cost to run Hacker News? They had a hardware failure this year and were for a really short time on a cloud instance and behind cloudflare.

zinekeller on Dec 29, 2022 [–]

While most of your statement is true, it was direct-from-AWS (at least from my testing, so I'm not sure if some users were routed through Cloudflare).

theCrowing on Dec 29, 2022 | [–]

Oh you might be right I could've sworn traceroute said cloudflare when I probed it.

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