EBS seems to be the main problem here, I'll cite a former reddit employe (first comment on the blog that talked about EBS problems). I don't work for reddit an

EBS seems to be the main problem here, I'll cite a former reddit employe (first comment on the blog that talked about EBS problems). I don't work for reddit anymore (as of about a week ago, although I didn't get as much fanfare as raldi did), but I can tell you that they're giving Amazon too much credit here. Amazon's EBSs are a barrel of laughs in terms of performance and reliability and are a constant (and the single largest) source of failure across reddit. reddit's been in talks with Amazon all the way up to CIOs about ways to fix them for nearly a year and they've constantly been making promises that they haven't been keeping, passing us to new people (that "will finally be able to fix it"), and variously otherwise been desperately trying to keep reddit while not actually earning it. Source: 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... cache: - scroll down for comment - http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:cfbs-sp10QYJ:www.reddit.com/r/blog/comments/g66f0/why_reddit_was_down_for_6_of_the_last_24_hours/+site:reddit.com+downtime+EBS+performance&cd=7&hl=en&ct=clnk&client=ubuntu&source=www.google.comhttp://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:cfbs-sp10QYJ:www.reddit.com/r/blog/comments/g66f0/why_reddit_was_down_for_6_of_the_last_24_hours/+site:reddit.com+downtime+EBS+performance&cd=7&hl=en&ct=clnk&client=ubuntu&source=www.google.com http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:cfbs-sp...