As 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 mor

As 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...