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Does a startup in Reddit's niche demand HA?

• lmm 4y ago
  I would think that if you want to create a habit where people check you frequently, avoiding downtime would be important. But IDK.
  • antupis 4y ago
    you probably would have some CDN front of it so some database unavailability would not impact to browsing that much.
  • sophacles 4y ago
    Reddit has gone through many periods of regular unplanned downtime as they hit various scale issues over the years. It's certainly something to avoid, but not necessarily something that's catastrophic - like most decisions there are tradeoffs.
  • rakoo 4y ago
    For something like reddit, who cares about consistency ? Under massive load no user cares about knowing the exact number of votes, all the replies to a comment, etc... It's also perfectly fine to refuse some writes if the load is too high to bear.