I think the server costs around $350/mo. I don't like to think how much time HN actually takes up, but when I was traveling recently I found that checking in for about 30 min a day was enough to keep things under control.
On a weekday we get about 350k pageviews from about 30k unique ip addrs.
Oh I don't know, perhaps it doesn't include the 4-projector basement monitoring screen in the basement, relaying real-time hits and anomalous voting patterns.
On a weekday we get about 350k pageviews from about 30k unique ip addrs.