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Re:I've operated petabyte-scale ClickHouse clusters for 5 years on Friday September 11, 2026 @02:02PM (#49662619)
But on the same time it is super efficient with it compare to other solutions. Kind of efficient for application logs for example.
Re:We cut our Mongo DB costs by 90% by moving to Hetzner on Thursday November 13, 2025 @10:53AM (#45916373)
Are you sure you went with RAID1 with 4x disks instead of RAID10?
Re:Leaving Gmail for Mailbox.org on Sunday August 24, 2025 @04:42AM (#45002520)
I’d say their new 2FA setup is still weird. Not properly documented, and enabling broke all my devices. ActiveSync for example is not working (even with app/device specific passwords)
Re:Ask HN: How did you replace Teleport? on Thursday October 17, 2024 @08:02PM (#41875077)
Do you only need authentication? Give Tailscale SSH a look.
Re:I Went to FOSDEM on Wednesday February 14, 2024 @05:42PM (#39376595)
Unfortunately, this has always been a problem there..
Re:Wikipedia is much deeper and nuanced than imagined on Wednesday September 06, 2023 @10:17AM (#37405515)
If you're interested how they run Wikipedia, their tech docs are public: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

https://github.com/wikimedia

Compared to many other stuff I read, it's mostly "boring tech".

Re:Hetzner Launches Three New Dedicated Servers on Wednesday March 15, 2023 @08:27AM (#35167206)
I've never used them but asked them once about pricing. For my use case they were really expensive ($1,500/vCPU)
Re:Show HN: Log collector that runs on a $4 VPS on Saturday February 11, 2023 @07:41PM (#34758119)
I am been using vector.dev for a long time now. It is also easy to setup. And it looks similar to your idea.
Re:Ask HN: How to make fewer mistakes? on Wednesday January 24, 2018 @09:36AM (#16222967)
make more mistakes, so you can learn from them.
yeaaah let us arrest the good guys...
seems to be a bad idea to get domains from strange small countries just because they look cool.
Re:Apache Server Status for ask.com on Friday April 07, 2017 @07:45AM (#14058874)
my favorite: /web?q=recording+people+having+sex+audio&qo=pagination&qid=
Nice! That's exactly the same idea I had some time ago. Are you guys hiring?
I think it is because that Microsoft just opened an office in Munich...
>that as our machines become more human we humans seem to become less human, or humane.