How much does it cost to run Hacker News?

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How much cost to run Hacker News monthly?These costs could be cloud costs as well as any engineers assigned to upkeep.

xuki · Accepted Answer

Pretty sure the most expensive thing is @dang's time.

nabaraz · Answer

I believe it still runs on one box. Xeon E5-3567 (3.5Ghz). Stack is FREEBSD with nginx as front-end.From a quick look at M5 hosting price, cost is probably $500-$1000/month (6M requests).

Havoc · Answer

Last dang talked about hardware it was on a pretty modest xeon so probably not all that muchhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28478379Unsure if anything has changed since

egberts1 · Answer

Hacker News' secret sauce: no fat image nor video nor sound file serving, just the text, ma'am.
Something that would have made Gopher protocol proud to coexist along in this exclusive class.
Probably could save even more money in bandwidth cost with mostly unsecured HTTP.

bullen · Answer

E5-2637 (32nm) is from 2012, I can not encourage people enough to buy the last 1151 Xeons or 8 core Atom on Mini-ITX SuperMicro motherboard (might be hard to find new soon): In particular I have E-2124 (2018), E-2224 (2019) and A2SDi-8C-HLN4F (2017); all 14nm, those you'll probably never have to replace for peak performance... the only question is if you will be able to afford powering them without revenues (75W/25W)...

marban · Answer

Text-only, No media hosting/ops &mdash; less than $500 on a humble setup.

amelius · Answer

For the answer to be relevant I think you first need to answer how many pageviews per day.

halotrope · Answer

I would be surprised if it was more than $100 per month

rasengan · Answer

A request optimized HN could cache pages and essentially only dynamically load votes and comments. This would reduce the need for a strong system.

How much does it cost to run Hacker News?

How much cost to run Hacker News monthly?
These costs could be cloud costs as well as any engineers assigned to upkeep.

Pretty sure the most expensive thing is @dang's time.

I believe it still runs on one box. Xeon E5-3567 (3.5Ghz). Stack is FREEBSD with nginx as front-end.
From a quick look at M5 hosting price, cost is probably $500-$1000/month (6M requests).

Last dang talked about hardware it was on a pretty modest xeon so probably not all that much
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28478379
Unsure if anything has changed since

Hacker News' secret sauce: no fat image nor video nor sound file serving, just the text, ma'am.
Something that would have made Gopher protocol proud to coexist along in this exclusive class.
Probably could save even more money in bandwidth cost with mostly unsecured HTTP.

Text-only, No media hosting/ops — less than $500 on a humble setup.

For the answer to be relevant I think you first need to answer how many pageviews per day.

I would be surprised if it was more than $100 per month

A request optimized HN could cache pages and essentially only dynamically load votes and comments. This would reduce the need for a strong system.

How much does it cost to run Hacker News?

How much cost to run Hacker News monthly?These costs could be cloud costs as well as any engineers assigned to upkeep.

Pretty sure the most expensive thing is @dang's time.

I believe it still runs on one box. Xeon E5-3567 (3.5Ghz). Stack is FREEBSD with nginx as front-end.From a quick look at M5 hosting price, cost is probably $500-$1000/month (6M requests).

Last dang talked about hardware it was on a pretty modest xeon so probably not all that muchhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28478379Unsure if anything has changed since

Hacker News' secret sauce: no fat image nor video nor sound file serving, just the text, ma'am.Something that would have made Gopher protocol proud to coexist along in this exclusive class.Probably could save even more money in bandwidth cost with mostly unsecured HTTP.

Text-only, No media hosting/ops — less than $500 on a humble setup.

For the answer to be relevant I think you first need to answer how many pageviews per day.

I would be surprised if it was more than $100 per month

A request optimized HN could cache pages and essentially only dynamically load votes and comments. This would reduce the need for a strong system.

How much cost to run Hacker News monthly?
These costs could be cloud costs as well as any engineers assigned to upkeep.

I believe it still runs on one box. Xeon E5-3567 (3.5Ghz). Stack is FREEBSD with nginx as front-end.
From a quick look at M5 hosting price, cost is probably $500-$1000/month (6M requests).

Last dang talked about hardware it was on a pretty modest xeon so probably not all that much
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28478379
Unsure if anything has changed since

Hacker News' secret sauce: no fat image nor video nor sound file serving, just the text, ma'am.
Something that would have made Gopher protocol proud to coexist along in this exclusive class.
Probably could save even more money in bandwidth cost with mostly unsecured HTTP.