Interesting is also traffic peaks. The IAMA from President Obama a few days ago really stress tested Reddit: http://blog.reddit.com/2012/08/potus-iama-stats.ht

Interesting is also traffic peaks. The IAMA from President Obama a few days ago really stress tested Reddit: http://blog.reddit.com/2012/08/potus-iama-stats.html http://blog.reddit.com/2012/08/potus-iama-stats.html > At the peak of the IAMA reddit was receiving over 100,000 pageviews per minute. > In preparation for the IAMA, we initially added 30 dedicated servers (20%~ increase) just for the comment thread. This turned out not to be enough, so we added another 30 dedicated servers to the mix. At peak, we were transferring 48 MB per second of reddit to the internet. This much traffic overwhelmed our load balancers which caused a lot of the slowness you probably experienced on reddit.