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Interview: Ask SoylentNews Staff Anything

posted by mattie_p on Wednesday February 19 2014, @01:21PM   Printer-friendly
from the no-really-do-it dept.

By now, you have had the chance to read the updates of both NCommander and Barrabas. Nonetheless, you may still be wondering quite a few things about the site and its staff. Here is your chance to ask us anything. These questions can be general in nature, in which case the staff will select a spokesperson to answer it, or it may be specific to an individual. If the question is for an individual, please ensure you identify that person specifically enough.

We will select the best questions from the thread and provide answers to the community. These questions may not be the highest rated, although we will probably use those first.

In keeping with tradition, ask as many as you'd like, but please, one question per post.

 
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  • (Score: 5, Interesting) by internetguy on Wednesday February 19 2014, @01:39PM

    by internetguy (235) on Wednesday February 19 2014, @01:39PM (#2649)

    As someone who has never launched a full blown website from scratch.

    Can you share with us the startup costs of SoylentNews?
    Did someone donate server space?

    Good job to everyone who was involved in getting this new site up and running!

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  • (Score: 5, Interesting) by hankwang on Wednesday February 19 2014, @02:30PM

    by hankwang (100) on Wednesday February 19 2014, @02:30PM (#2703) Homepage

    Just guessing: the IP address is somewhere at linode.com [linode.com]. According to the statistics [dev.soylentnews.org] posted yesterday, it's running at 7 GB/day (on the first day). A Linode VPS with 2 GB RAM and 2 CPUs costs $40 per month; the domain names another few bucks. I read somewhere on the wiki that they had to upgrade their hosting plan. I guess that the cost has been pretty much negligible so far.

    Not included: pizzas, cola, and the cost of the many all-nighters that undoubtedly have been pulled...

    More interesting: what will it cost to run once it has (a) slashdot-like traffic and (b) a huge database with 2^24 comments and 10^6 users. (Slashdot had a database crash around 2007 when the comment count hit 2^24.)

    • (Score: 2) by Vanderhoth on Wednesday February 19 2014, @03:48PM

      by Vanderhoth (61) on Wednesday February 19 2014, @03:48PM (#2776)

      (Slashdot had a database crash around 2007 when the comment count hit 2^24.)
      Yeah, sorry about that...

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    • (Score: 1) by albert on Thursday February 20 2014, @01:34AM

      by albert (276) on Thursday February 20 2014, @01:34AM (#3203)

      I'm thinking we'll get a crash when we reach 2^24 comments.

  • (Score: 1) by new here on Wednesday February 19 2014, @05:06PM

    by new here (1931) on Wednesday February 19 2014, @05:06PM (#2858)

    No, I am new here.