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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Stackoverflow and Hackernews have very low hosting costs.

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Stackoverflow, probably not. Stack Exchange, possibly