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folks should probably avoid linking their own personal git forge (or others, if this is the case) to HN and just use GitHub to share their code. or deploy the content to a static site host.


Why even have any sites in other places? Why not just put everything on Github, then it's all in one place within reach at us-east-2


I'm thinking in terms of etiquette and experience. It's not really polite to throw a bunch of unexpected traffic at a little lowly app server


Since I host a little lowly app server with a public listener on 80, I’m cool with whatever traffic is thrown. And that’s good etiquette.

The web was built for lots of distributed servers hosting and users hitting them. Only using “big servers” is bad for the world.


Postel's law, I suppose, is the right way to look at it.


Link elsewhere in this thread[0] shows that this user removed this repo from GitHub deliberately, so I doubt they're the account who shared it.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33897373


People are free to host however they like. They can't control who posts links on popular aggregators.


Agreed, even as a SRE myself it is just easier to link to a GitHib repo. GH, with all of its warts, is still likely better at handling a traffic spike than you.




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