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Why does Reddit really need 99% availability? Is a customer unduly harmed or is the world even worse off if Reddit is down for a couple cumulative days per year
by BrandonM 16y ago
Why does Reddit really need 99% availability? Is a customer unduly harmed or is the world even worse off if Reddit is down for a couple cumulative days per year? Is it worth the cost? Would you put up with more ads and/or pay for Reddit in order to make sure that it's available 24/7/365?
- ry0ohki 16y agoProbably not as much for the customer as for the company. When sites are unreliable, people end up going to the more reliable competitors as they arise.
- shasta 16y agoI wouldn't think there a large number of customers deciding "this is too unreliable, I'm leaving" on the basis of a few hours of down time. On the other hand, there might be a large number of people who, upon finding your site down, decide to visit alternatives that are up at the time, and some of those people might decide they like the alternatives better.
- scorpion032 16y agoIf any site can take down time and not lose users, reddit can. And it has.