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For a site that is simply some text and comments, they have a staggering amount of downtime and timeouts. At reddit's scale, it doesn't matter what they're ser
by fleaflicker 12y ago
For a site that is simply some text and comments, they have a staggering amount of downtime and timeouts.
At reddit's scale, it doesn't matter what they're serving. The challeneges of serving that many pageviews are significant.
- Retric 12y agoThey might have ~175M page views per month, but for comparison HN can serve ~50M page-views per month from one server.
- judk 12y agoHN pages are much less featureful than reddit's.
- Deimorz 12y agoI think you misread some stats. 175M is the number of unique visitors reddit gets per month, the page views is over 6 billion: https://www.reddit.com/about https://www.reddit.com/about
- mukyu 12y agoOn reddit you have a large portion of logged in users that all have their own front pages, and active subreddits, and active comment threads. On HN you basically have people that have showdead on and those that don't and a few small comment threads going on at the same time. It really is not accurate to compare the two.
- cal5k 12y agoNot to mention that reddit serves highly customized views to authenticated users.
- nemothekid 12y agoWhile I understand that serving users at Reddit's scale is no small problem - from an outsiders pov, Reddit's engineering culture is very different from something like Pinterest (who also has the same problem wrt highly curated user feeds). Despite this though, what I really meant that whatever Reddit is doing now doesn't seem to be working. Scaling back their remote workers might be the solution - in any case we will know sometime in 2015.