Blog ran on Ubuntu 16.04 for 10 years. I migrated it to FreeBSD

Re:Blog ran on Ubuntu 16.04 for 10 years. I migrated it to F... by not_kurt_godel on Friday May 22, 2026 @02:18PM (#48239418)

You tell me. Here's a list of maybe 15 sites it's happened to on HN in just the last month: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastMonth&page=0&prefix=tr...

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Re:Blog ran on Ubuntu 16.04 for 10 years. I migrated it to F... by Mashimo on Sunday May 24, 2026 @07:54AM (#48256519)

I also know it happens. I still don't understand why.

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Re:Blog ran on Ubuntu 16.04 for 10 years. I migrated it to F... by not_kurt_godel on Saturday May 30, 2026 @07:28PM (#48341588)

Servers and/or their supporting infrastructure break in a million annoying ways when you throw a bunch of traffic at them. The top 2 culprits I've seen over the years are memory leaks and disks getting full from non-existent/failed log deletion/harvesting. 99.9% of those problems are effectively solved permanently and for free by using a CDN where applicable.

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