Ask HN: How does someone the size of Reddit, go down?
2 pointsby newsoftheday25 days ago2 comments
  • benoau25 days 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.

    • redleader5525 days 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.

      [0] - https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/RDDT/reddit/revenu...

      • benoau25 days ago
        > Reddit revenue for the twelve months ending September 30, 2025 was $1.905B

        $5,219,178 per day

        $214,765 per hour

        $3,580 per minute

    • fuzzfactor25 days 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?

  • api25 days ago
    ... and productivity skyrocketed. :)