Twitter alerted employees all office buildings closed and badge access suspended

Re:Twitter alerted employees all office buildings closed and... by TylerE on Thursday November 17, 2022 @08:50PM (#33648778)

It probably IS expensive to host because it’s written in a language no one uses without an optimizing compiler, and apprently most of the “db” is flatfiles on disk, some of which get read on every request.

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Re:Twitter alerted employees all office buildings closed and... by jrockway on Thursday November 17, 2022 @08:56PM (#33648825)

Computers are fast. This isn't a particularly demanding workload; pages for users that aren't logged in are cached, and there probably aren't a ton of people logged in.

Last time I looked, Let's Encrypt had one big beefy Postgres database to issue pretty much every single TLS certificate on the Internet. Computers are fast.

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Re:Twitter alerted employees all office buildings closed and... by orangepurple on Thursday November 17, 2022 @09:38PM (#33649202)

You vastly underestimate how much impact ONE server can make if you don't use modern cloud garbage tech

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Re:Twitter alerted employees all office buildings closed and... by detaro on Thursday November 17, 2022 @09:09PM (#33648942)

its hosted on a single random server, so no, in absolute terms it very unlikely is expensive.

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Re:Twitter alerted employees all office buildings closed and... by dang on Saturday November 19, 2022 @02:23AM (#33667901)

HN isn't that expensive to host. We have two servers at a colo and various backups to S3.

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