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I'm not actually disagreeing with you. My point was those same tasks had/have to be done at Digg, Reddit, Twitter, etc.
by ojbyrne 9y ago
I'm not actually disagreeing with you. My point was those same tasks had/have to be done at Digg, Reddit, Twitter, etc.
- mschuster91 9y agoDigg and Reddit, for starters, don't have hundreds of their own datacenters - and about one or more orders of magnitude less users than the "giants". Twitter seems to have operated a mixture of leased and owned DC space (http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2011/09/19/twitter-adding-more-data-center-space-again/ http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2011/09/19/twitt...), but far, far less than FB/Google/AWS do. Digg and reddit are fairly niche, at least for advertisers - which means these sites need far less ad salespeople and support staff; reddit also can get by with having next to zero visible support staff by relying on community moderators which cost them nothing.