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		anaganisk on Dec 16, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Tell HN: AWS appears to be down again Doesn’t HN run on top of firebase? Which ties it to Google? People seem to imply its run on a dedicated instance.

ceejayoz on Dec 16, 2021 [–]

No; a copy of the HN database is synced regularly to Firebase (https://github.com/HackerNews/API), but IIRC the site itself runs on a single process on a single machine with a standby ready.

edit: Yup. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28479595

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