Even the CBC is making an article about it! 😅

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    61 year ago

    How come Reddit’s hosting costs are so high?

    Presumably the volume of traffic their servers need to handle?

    One database call is pretty lightweight, but millions a second add up to some serious processing. Which, presumably, needs a lot of servers.

    • @[email protected]
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      171 year ago

      Stackoverflow and Hackernews have very low hosting costs. Reddit is serving text, which is incredibly cheap.

      • @[email protected]
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        31 year ago

        Stackoverflow and Hackernews have very low hosting costs.

        Sure, but are they handling the volume of traffic that Reddit does (or did until yesterday)?

        • @psilves1
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          71 year ago

          Stackoverflow, probably not. Stack Exchange, possibly

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        31 year ago

        Possibly because imgur was building its own social network around the media people were uploading for posting reddit? You’d see a pic on reddit but if you clicked beyond the xownde doer view you’d see comments from imgur itself.