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Joined June 2013
Networking issues at our hosting provider. Sorry! Hoping to be back up soon
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HN is running again, on a new server created from backups. Will be monitoring closely. Sorry everyone for the inconvenience!
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Working on restoring from backups the slow way, since failover server also failed. No ETA yet, but we're getting there.
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HN is down again with what appears to be a second disk failure. This is on the fallback server, which we switched to last night when the primary server failed. Will update when we know more. Sorry all!
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Welp, figured out why - because I am idiot. Routine code change exploded performance. Only took me 2 hours to think of reverting it. Sorry!
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Sorry all - server is smoking right now, trying to figure out why
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Back now. Got to write some code for a change...
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Network outage at hosting provider. Sorry all!
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Growth plus big news day equals steam coming out our ears. Sorry! Duct tape in place, major improvements hopefully not too far off.
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Connectivity problems reported by some users. Investigating.
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Back. Unsatisfyingly, have no better answer than "Racket hung".
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Copying some data. Back in a couple minutes.
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Reorganizing some data. Might take half an hour, hopefully less.
Routing confusion at HN's host while provisioning a new server. On the phone now. Sorry everybody.
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When HN is readonly, you can make it go faster by visiting news.ycombinator.com/logout. Logged-out users get served from cache.
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Compacting vote data for a few minutes.
Migrating data. Expect to be done in 20 minutes.
Migrating data. Almost done.
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Copying a pile of analytics data. Hope to be back shortly.