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Jedberg last year stating that a startup buying physical machines today is foolish: http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/a2zte/i_run_reddits_servers_and_do_a_b
by iamjustlooking 15y ago
Jedberg last year stating that a startup buying physical machines today is foolish: http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/a2zte/i_run_reddits_servers_and_do_a_bunch_of_other/c0fm2we http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/a2zte/i_run_reddits_se...
- tesseract 15y agoReddit is not a startup anymore.
- jackowayed 15y agoI wouldn't expect them to buy hardware, but I definitely could see them going to a dedicated hosting service like Softlayer (where you still just pay monthly and can usually bring up more capacity fairly fast, but you get whole machines instead of virtualized machines). It seems like that would make a lot more sense for Reddit, since I/O is so slow and flakey on EC2 (from what I hear), and it's not like they're really taking full advantage of the elasticity that EC2 provides (by massively scaling up and down to fit major load variance)