Ask HN: How does someone the size of Reddit, go down?
2•newsoftheday•1h ago
Imagine you're Reddit, you do down, like it is right now, thousands of reports in the last few minutes. How can you be that size of Internet company and not have the ability to stay up, resilient to most outage scenarios?
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benoau•1h ago
One minute of their downtime loses about $5k - $10k of ad revenue.
One year of massive redundancy costs (tens of) millions of dollars, and will always be slightly susceptible to failure anyway.
fuzzfactor•54m ago
Those sound like pretty good estimates.
Maybe the real question is how does someone that size keep it up so reliably?
You also have to consider which mission is it critical to?
redleader55•44m ago
According to the latest data I found online [0], they are earning ~25k/minute, at the moment. With 1 hour of revenue they can pay 3 people to fix the technical debt that caused this and prevent more failures in the future.
benoau•1h ago
One year of massive redundancy costs (tens of) millions of dollars, and will always be slightly susceptible to failure anyway.
fuzzfactor•54m ago
Maybe the real question is how does someone that size keep it up so reliably?
You also have to consider which mission is it critical to?
redleader55•44m ago
[0] - https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/RDDT/reddit/revenu...
benoau•32m ago
$5,219,178 per day
$214,765 per hour
$3,580 per minute