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Outage, singular. You are talking about the 6 hour outage, not the 6 hour outages. Reddit is prone to go down more than some other high profile sites, but you a
by uxp 16y ago
Outage, singular. You are talking about the 6 hour outage, not the 6 hour outages. Reddit is prone to go down more than some other high profile sites, but you are talking about a single occurrence of it going down due to a known issue that is explained in the article this thread links to.
No, it is not a coincidence. Please don't sensationalize a comment about an article that clearly explains what went wrong. Go to Reddit for that.
- seabee 16y agoAs someone who hangs around in the reddit dev and downtime IRC channels, several-hour outages do happen on a monthly basis, as well as loss of some features more e.g. commenting. Reading between the lines on each outage, it was due to building the site on shaky hardware foundations. It just wasn't explicitly mentioned until now. http://www.reddit.com/r/blog/comments/g66f0/why_reddit_was_down_for_6_of_the_last_24_hours/c1l6ykx http://www.reddit.com/r/blog/comments/g66f0/why_reddit_was_d...
- officemonkey 16y agoForgive me for the hyperbole, but I've been getting timeouts and extremely slow page loads from reddit daily for at least six months. They always seem to have an excuse (usually about something being screwed up with Amazon), but frankly "not my fault" only works so often.