Tell HN: HN Moved from M5 to AWS

Re:Tell HN: HN Moved from M5 to AWS by bushbaba on Friday July 08, 2022 @11:00PM (#32031113)

Curious, why not Digital Ocean? Which is a YC investment? I get why you choose AWS on a technical basis, but wouldn't it make sense to give the business to Digital Ocean to help their brand?

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Re:Tell HN: HN Moved from M5 to AWS by dang on Friday July 08, 2022 @11:11PM (#32031176)

Pretty sure Digital Ocean is not a YC-funded startup.

We wouldn't make HN decisions on that basis anyhow, though, I don't think. Maybe if all other things were literally equal.

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Re:Tell HN: HN Moved from M5 to AWS by toast0 on Saturday July 09, 2022 @02:55AM (#32032560)

Digital Ocean recently ended their support for FreeBSD, and HN runs on FreeBSD (at least at M5), and while you don't really need to run an OS your vm provider supports, it's kind of nice.

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Re:Tell HN: HN Moved from M5 to AWS by Godel_unicode on Saturday July 09, 2022 @01:21AM (#32031998)

> help their brand

Who are the people that use HN and would notice it moved hosting, but haven’t heard of Digital Ocean?

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