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> I was thinking 10 or 20 active servers, You said a couple, which usually means 'two'. You offered StackOverflow as "another website with Reddit's daily acti
by mschaef 8y ago
> I was thinking 10 or 20 active servers,
You said a couple, which usually means 'two'.
You offered StackOverflow as "another website with Reddit's daily active users and revenue profile, but significantly higher availability" and then said this:
"I wouldn't be surprised as well if reddit was two orders of magnitude more than that"
> I will stand by my statement
I have no literally idea how to have a conversation with someone who's willing to revise their previous numbers by a factor of ten or more, say it's the same statement as it was before, and call it good.
- user5994461 8y agoI'm not revising the numbers. I'm saying that it's working out, with the worse case scenario being that it takes some more hardware. Reddit raised hundreds of millions of dollars, whereas stack overflow didn't, they have the means to buy a rack more if that's what is missing. There is no excuse to be slow or broken all the time. The amount of traffic is not significant. It's perfectly scalable and shardable, it's only text over HTTP and most of it is cachable by a CDN.