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Re:Ask HN: Do you use FreeBSD as web server? Why or why not? by jsmthrowaway on Tuesday May 31, 2016 @02:09AM (#11804929)
I've seen nginx failures recently, so there might be a nginx reverse proxy hanging out in front of Arc (the whole stack noticeably behind CloudFlare, too, but that's sort of beyond the original question).

That'd be how I'd build it, if I'm right. Doing webby things without nginx is like forgetting pants, to me.

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Re:Ask HN: Do you use FreeBSD as web server? Why or why not? by kinkdr on Tuesday May 31, 2016 @02:27AM (#11805011)
Excuse my ignorance, but what is "Arc"?
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Re:Ask HN: Do you use FreeBSD as web server? Why or why not? by e12e on Tuesday May 31, 2016 @02:34AM (#11805041)
Arc is a lisp variant: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arc_(programming_language)

The current[1] distribution comes with a hn clone, that as far as I know, is mostly equivalent to the code that used to power hn at some point in the not too distant past.

[1] current might not be the best name for it, but as far as I can tell it a) works, b) has been ported to Racket (as opposed to being trapped on some ancient version of PLT Scheme), and c) is maintained (ish): https://github.com/arclanguage/anarki

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Re:Ask HN: Do you use FreeBSD as web server? Why or why not? by jsmthrowaway on Tuesday May 31, 2016 @02:30AM (#11805022)
A Lisp. (The nerdy kind. Not the verbal kind.)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arc_(programming_language)

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Re:Ask HN: Do you use FreeBSD as web server? Why or why not? by kinkdr on Tuesday May 31, 2016 @02:33AM (#11805037)
Cool, thanks. for some reason I always thought HN was using github.com/reddit/reddit
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Re:Ask HN: Do you use FreeBSD as web server? Why or why not? by mixedCase on Tuesday May 31, 2016 @02:24AM (#11804992)
Isn't CloudFlare the one using nginx?
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Re:Ask HN: Do you use FreeBSD as web server? Why or why not? by jsmthrowaway on Tuesday May 31, 2016 @02:27AM (#11805010)
The nginx errors I recall being unstyled and I think CloudFlare hides or styles theirs. I consider CF tossing an unstyled nginx error fairly unlikely anyway, but that's a gut feeling. Might be wrong.
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