Even the CBC is making an article about it! 😅

  • kent_eh@lemmy.ca
    1·
    1 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.

      • can@sh.itjust.works
        3·
        1 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.

    • zephyreks@lemmy.ca
      3·
      1 year ago

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

      • kent_eh@lemmy.ca
        1·
        1 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)?