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Reddit has been down for two days maybe that was the kick in the pants they needed.

• mkr-hn 16y ago
  Reddit is down half the time because people flocked to it when Digg went south. Any team would struggle to keep up with that kind of growth. http://siteanalytics.compete.com/digg.com+reddit.com/ http://siteanalytics.compete.com/digg.com+reddit.com/ A sudden influx of 100k people overnight is not easy to manage. The number on the visits graph is even more substantial.
  • hayhayhay 16y ago
    Their architecture is flawed, given the platform and stack they chose. Not only is it easily solvable, the solution would be cheaper than their current 'throw more VMs at a bad architecture' approach.
  • dhughes 16y ago
    Well not half but quite a bit since the digg diaspora, but lately it's been especially bad lately.
  • hessenwolf 16y ago
    Well, some of us were knocked on to hacker news as a result. It's like a cashflow waterfall. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Securitization http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Securitization
    • leon_ 16y ago
      Oh, that explains much.