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I really like this post. A lot. The idea that just throwing money at something will in some way keep it alive is kind-of silly. The closest you'll come to th
by dpcan 16y ago
I really like this post. A lot. The idea that just throwing money at something will in some way keep it alive is kind-of silly.
The closest you'll come to this if you have ONLY a paid option, which would eliminate the free users, and make the system far smaller and more manageable, in which case there WOULD be more up-time because people were paying.
But I agree, to to think a small subset of paying users will have any affect on the up-time of a major site is just a pipe dream.
- bxr 16y ago>to think a small subset of paying users will have any affect on the up-time of a major site is just a pipe dream You seem to rely on the assumption that every major site's budget is so lush that a small portion of the userbase paying would be unable to solve any of their technical or employee needs. Look at reddit, their recent donation effort has gotten them servers and staff: http://blog.reddit.com/2010/11/help-us-help-you-help-us.html http://blog.reddit.com/2010/11/help-us-help-you-help-us.html You'd be crazy to say that those additional resources will have no affect at all on their uptime.
- dpcan 16y agoActually, Reddit is the exact site I was thinking of when I made this post. They opened up the Reddit Gold, it helped a little, but lately the site seems to go down daily, or even more often. It's almost like it's getting worse.