Hacker News: vc5https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=vc5Hacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Thu, 16 Apr 2026 13:35:26 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by vc5 in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)"]]>Best of luck with this. If you get the web hosting part going and need to stick a load balancer in front of web servers/front end proxies, may I suggest that you give my project[1] a go? Speaks BGP directly to your routers to advertise healthy services and scales from small VMs (for services that are only a few gigabits/s) to physical servers if you need to serve tens of gigabits/s traffic.

Shameless plug, sorry (not sorry!) but I would have killed for it when I worked in web hosting :-)

[1] https://github.com/davidcoles/vc5

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