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原始链接: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41016290

该网站的 HTML 结构显示了 HTML5 和 XHTML 的元素，以及一种称为“IE7 之前的脚本标记”的旧技术。列表中没有使用正确的列表标签，并且 HTML 输出中嵌入了原始 PHP 代码。此外，HTML 文档缺少“body”和“html”的结束标记。此外，用户可以将数据发送到软盘上，然后由软盘上传，而不是使用文件传输协议（FTP）来提交文件。但是，由于与其他操作系统（例如 Windows、Linux 和 Mac）的兼容性问题，仅接受 OS/2 Warp 软盘。除了这些发现之外，进一步的调查还揭示了托管平台的各种不可靠的方面，包括意外包含包含泄露的客户数据库的管理面板、虚拟专用服务器（VPS）演示以及服务器运行方面的潜在不一致。尽管存在这些缺点，客户似乎仍愿意继续使用所提供的服务，并经常选择负担得起的“拿走我的钱”计划。此外，他们的服务器似乎偶尔会出现停机情况，该公司声称他们正在通过持续改进努力来解决这一问题，以实现 100% 的正常运行时间。最后，高流量似乎偶尔会导致性能问题，类似于所谓的“黑客新闻拥抱死亡”，当某些网站受到压倒性关注时，会导致延迟或崩溃。总之，虽然该网站提供了古怪的幽默，但其技术能力似乎有限，特别是与现代计算设备和标准相比。

The HTML source is pretty good too. A doctype that's half HTML5, half XHTML. A pre-IE7 script tag thing. A meta-keywords tag. Lists that don't actually use any list tags. Raw PHP tags being dumped into the HTML output. No closing body or html tags. This joke has _layers_, man.

> Don't like uploading your files via FTP? No problem! Send us your files on a floppy and we'll upload it for you. It's one of the many ways we do our best to accommodate your needs. Just remember, our floppy system does not accept Windows, Linux, or Mac floppies.

OS/2 Warp is back, baby!

I like how deep the rabbit hole goes on pauperhosting. The accidentally included admin panel with leaked customer db, the VPS demo, everything. I'm pretty sure I haven't even discovered half of it yet.

How do we know they even power up any servers at all, for the service? I mean, they could simply just not power up any servers at all. Till then, I’ll opt for the ‘take-my-money’ plan.

Ideally they wouldn’t need to power up the servers but you can see from the graph that unfortunately there’s still some uptime, though they are working on it, maybe once they reach 100% downtime

How bad is the HN hug of death btw? My laptop can serve 200k QPS per core. I can't imagine HN is that much more intensive? Are 1vCPU VMs just that much worse?

Yes, they are much worse than bon-fide actual single cores on most recently purchased laptops. But also, the HN hug of death mostly happens with tiny non-static sites that are sloppily hosted. If you're serving static assets it's hard to "hug of death" a Casio watch.

M3 at work, Acer Swift 3 at home. Both are comparable in that regard. You can do 200k QPS of actual work (a little protobuf parsing, a little old-school ML, handling the networking, a little HTTP1.1 parsing, ...), more if you just want vanity metrics, just by wrapping something like uSockets [0] and not doing anything to explicitly pessimize the system.

You can do better with a hand-crafted solution, but most projects don't need anything fancier.

[0] https://github.com/uNetworking/uSockets

Out of interest, that mentions "Dedicated Win 3.11", so silly question, I assume you would be able to install DOS on a dedicated server, but might it be possible to run DOS/Win 3.11 on EC2 (I couldn't find a publicly accessible list of AMIs)

I have a new business idea.

I’m going to rent out 64-core systems with oodles of RAM, with ZFS.

This is the catch: the ZFS pool is based on mirrors of 3.5 inch floppies

I am not very good at telling jokes.

But even i can tell, that this is low effort. You really get a laugh out of it? Like "hahahaha, they said PHP 5"?

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