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Due to a (catastrophic) hardware crash, this site will be closed

by yexponential on 6/6/15, 12:34 PM with 6 comments

• by QUFB on 6/6/15, 4:20 PM

  I've noticed in the past on Hacker News comment threads about Amazon AWS, or other cloud services, that a common theme is that "EC2 is expensive, just buy a dedicated server from OVH/Hetzner!"

  This is why some use EC2: it is trivial to snapshot and backup block storage, it is cheap to store snapshots, and recovery from a catastrophic hardware crash will take minutes.

• by emiliobumachar on 6/6/15, 4:09 PM

  I hate to be that guy, but this time I can't help it:

  Anyone has any insights as to why something this mundane could make HN front page?

• by cekanoni on 6/6/15, 12:58 PM

  what was that site about ?

• by yexponential on 6/6/15, 12:34 PM

  Anyone with insight on what happened exactly?