[HN Gopher] Page was served from Nginx on ReactOS
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Page was served from Nginx on ReactOS
Author : timeoperator
Score : 31 points
Date : 2022-08-14 18:39 UTC (4 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (reactos.aaron.cc)
(TXT) w3m dump (reactos.aaron.cc)
| freitasm wrote:
| Over the last few months we've seen so many "Page served from..."
| and most of them are just DOA.
|
| Why can't people put a little effort and host those pages on
| their hardware/software of choice but at least put them behind
| some CDN (at least for static resources)?
| girvo wrote:
| This is HN's fault this time: it's forcing HTTPS which the site
| doesn't support.
|
| Try this, and it'll work: http://reactos.aaron.cc/
| tssva wrote:
| Because when people do serve them from behind a CDN people rush
| to the comments to lambast them for not serving every request
| from the system in question.
| pessimizer wrote:
| Maybe it wasn't meant for HN, but actually for someone's blog
| that only gets a few hundred hits a day if it's a very
| successful blog. Going out on a limb here.
| indymike wrote:
| Half the time it's the links says https and the server only
| does http.
| AeroNotix wrote:
| Is that why it's not working?
| skerit wrote:
| I can see the page just fine, pretty cool!
| phoe-krk wrote:
| Most likely the HN Hug of Death(r) had gone into effect. It's
| capable of incapacitating any sort of system without load
| balancing as soon as that system is linked from the front of
| Hacker News.
| gerdesj wrote:
| When did the Slashdot effect get renamed to Hug of Death?
| Anyway, 'tis broken for me too.
|
| There must be quite a few hits on your website when HN links
| it. nginx out of the box can handle quite a lot of
| connections, assuming that it isn't trying serve something
| too complicated on each one.
| politelemon wrote:
| I believe the phrase originated from Reddit many years ago,
| where the audience isn't fully familiar with the phrase's
| previous incarnation.
|
| Since then it has been reappropriated widely on HN and
| Imgur and any place where people gather and unwittingly
| cause a denial of service with the best of intentions.
| gerdesj wrote:
| Thank you. I can't say I've been keeping up with my memes
| n that. The damn kids must have grown up or something!
|
| I have to say, it is quite fun watching words, phrases
| and ideas being made up on the fly at a prolific rate
| these days. I can still remember reading about memes in a
| Richard Dawkins book and a few years later the concept
| was coerced wholesale by the internets. I still remember
| thinking "what the fuck is a roflcopter" and then
| suddenly achieving enlightenment. My granddaughters were
| born with thumbs that can doom scroll.
|
| Nowadays are properly weird and will continue to get
| weirder. Despite that it will also continue to be normal.
| scrlk wrote:
| > When did the Slashdot effect get renamed to Hug of Death?
|
| Probably around then time when reddit really started to
| take off, so I'd guess early 2010s.
| mikl wrote:
| If you're just serving static HTML, HN should not be a
| problem. It's only if you're running code (and database
| queries) for every request that your server might go down in
| flames.
| phaer wrote:
| This might not work the same for a fresh port on an
| alternative system. For example: I have no idea how many
| open connections reactos could handle on the kernel-side
| with a standard config.
| [deleted]
| notRobot wrote:
| Hasn't collapsed, you just need to access it through HTTP
| instead of HTTPS.
| oofdere wrote:
| It seems to be because HN is forcing HTTPS, it works when using
| HTTP.
|
| Try this: http://reactos.aaron.cc/
| game-of-throws wrote:
| Seems to have collapsed, but archive.org has a snapshot.
|
| https://web.archive.org/web/20220811232234/https://reactos.a...
| notRobot wrote:
| Hasn't collapsed, you just need to access it through HTTP
| instead of HTTPS.
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