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Ask HN: Why Reddit is still crashing?
Right now, if you would try to enter Reddit, it says "all of our servers are busy right now" and most of the times "this page is temporarily in read-only mode due to heavy traffic".
Why is it still happening in 2017 after many successful examples like Facebook, Twitter etc.?
- nostrademons 9y agoReddit employee count [2015]: ~100 Twitter employee count: 3,583 Facebook employee count: 17,048
- tarikozket 9y agoDisqus has 51 employees and manages 17 billion pageviews.
- charsifood 9y agoWhatsApp engineer count[2015]: ~50 https://www.wired.com/2015/09/whatsapp-serves-900-million-users-50-engineers/ https://www.wired.com/2015/09/whatsapp-serves-900-million-us...
- dmlittle 9y agoWhile true, accomplishing the scale that WhatsApp did with 50 employees is significantly harder and more impressive than being able to serve the same kind of traffic with 1,000 employees building the infrastructure to support such feat.
- nabaraz 9y agoThey have what 100 employees. That is not enough to run a 8 billion monthly pageviews site. The heavy traffic right now is probably due to #BuckinghamPalace
- flukus 9y ago> #BuckinghamPalace What's happening? Reddit is down.
- detaro 9y agopresumably http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/celebrity-life/royals/queen-elizabeths-entire-staff-called-to-highly-unusual-emergency-meeting-at-buckingham-palace/news-story/f4713452396863eff2dc2a4dc7997215 http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/celebrity-life/royals/q..., at least that's on the top of /r/all
- tarikozket 9y agoDisqus has 51 employees and manages 17 billion pageviews.
- roystonvassey 9y agoTechnical details aside, it could be because a high-impact news story is running on Reddit (and isn't available elsewhere, neither on FB/Twitter or mainstream news)
- stevenwu 9y agoSort of related but not about the main site being down: search crashes way more often than I expected it would for such a popular site. I read an AMA by the CEO that said they're rolling out a new search by (the end of?) this summer. Probably not enough resources to scale up as fast as they want to.