Curious about Kinja...

"BaconSandwich is tasty." (baconsandwich) 07/29/2014 at 23:29 • Filed to: None

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I'm kind of curious to know some technical info about Kinja. I'd be curious to know what kind of load it is supporting, and what sort of hardware it is running on. I know Oppo and Jalopnik are probably a pretty small portion of it's total traffic.

Anyone have any idea where I could find out more?

XJDano > BaconSandwich is tasty. 07/29/2014 at 23:31

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"kinja help" tag that usually gets their attention

Manuél Ferrari > BaconSandwich is tasty. 07/29/2014 at 23:52

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All of Jalopnik and Oppo run on one 2009 Mac Pro running Cent OS

SonorousSpeedJoe > BaconSandwich is tasty. 07/30/2014 at 00:05

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IIRC, they usually cite stats from Quantcast when referring to regular vs. unique visitors, so I think that'd be worth a look.

Nibbles > BaconSandwich is tasty. 07/30/2014 at 00:08

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Judging by the errors I've seen, it's likely an Apache webserver running MySQL or PostGre SQL. Probably virtual clustered nodes on HP ProLiant hardware. Likely DL780 G7 or Gen8

BJ > BaconSandwich is tasty. 07/30/2014 at 00:16

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There's a blog on kinja just for that: http://tech.kinja.com/

Carl (@stuffcarlsays) > BaconSandwich is tasty. 07/30/2014 at 09:48

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DNS with Dyn, app hosted on Fastly's CDN.

jvirgs drives a Subaru > BaconSandwich is tasty. 07/30/2014 at 19:36

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Its run by a gerbil spinning in a wheel, and when the poor bastard gets tired, kinja'd.

BaconSandwich is tasty. > Nibbles 07/30/2014 at 21:54

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I guess I haven't paid too much attention to the errors. If so, those are some pretty specific errors!

BaconSandwich is tasty. > BJ 07/30/2014 at 21:55

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Nice! I never knew that existed! Many thanks.

BaconSandwich is tasty. > Manuél Ferrari 07/30/2014 at 21:55

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Not Ubuntu, eh?

(I've been learning some stuff at work recently. It turns out the flavour of Linux that Amazon uses for it's Amazon Linux for Elastic Beanstalk is pretty similar to CentOS.

Nibbles > BaconSandwich is tasty. 07/30/2014 at 21:59

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I tend to pay attention to that crap, it's in my job d

BaconSandwich is tasty. > Nibbles 07/30/2014 at 22:02

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Now you've got me curious. Some sort of sys admin?

Nibbles > BaconSandwich is tasty. 07/30/2014 at 23:44

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Systems engineer. Like a sysadmin but with a fancier title ;)

Manuél Ferrari > BaconSandwich is tasty. 07/31/2014 at 01:01

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Haha I dunno, just messing around.

All I know is that we use CentOS at work on our servers. At least I think we still do

nFamousCJ - Keeper of Stringbean, Gengars and a Deezul > jvirgs drives a Subaru 07/31/2014 at 01:07

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And when you post during high traffic times

Manuél Ferrari > nFamousCJ - Keeper of Stringbean, Gengars and a Deezul 07/31/2014 at 01:12

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that was awesome