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Everything built on hardware you don't own is doomed to end like that at scale, yes? When are we going back to owning your own fast, light, redundant hardware
by ck2 3y ago
Everything built on hardware you don't own is doomed to end like that at scale, yes?
When are we going back to owning your own fast, light, redundant hardware so you don't have to charge millions for free APIs that were responsible for all your growth in the first place?
- make3 3y agoI'm not sure what difference it makes where or how the site is hosted?
- zerocrates 3y agoI don't think Reddit's issue is the cost of operating the site but the pressure to generate bigger revenue for the IPO (or maybe more, a plausible story by which they could generate big revenue). Of course costs play a part in how much revenue you need, but even in the realm of costs it's probably employees rather than servers that's dominant.