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They're beautiful, those numbers! Does that come from a single site, or something that embeds across multiple, also how do you power that amount of traffic?
One single website. 17 Webservers (Apache+PHP) 4 Cache servers (Memcache+Redis) 2 Databases Clusters (MySQL+Sphinx): 1 Master + 3 slaves, 1master + 7 slaves.
That's 380 pages every second consecutively. The reality is probably much grimmer, say, 1000+ page a second during peak usage. Very, very impressive.
I have mixed feelings about this statistic. On the one hand, I get to feel cool because I was into reddit before it got popular. On the other hand, reddit has jumped the shark with all of the awful people that have recently joined to get it to the 1 billion monthly pageview category. But, then again, that's kind of a good thing because I don't visit reddit anymore so I'm a million times more productive than I used to…
Just don't read the front page.
I certainly don't (well, not often, still need to keep up on the goings on).
Huge congratulations to the reddit team, old and new. Does this mean you'll be doing your next round of hiring for a new dev soon?
Wow, good job, Team Reddit! Since I think you guy still read HN: Something you all seem to do very, very well is interact with your users. Almost every day I'll see somebody [usually jedberg] show up in a thread answering a question, or responding to something, or even just saying hello. Like this: http://www.reddit.com/r/blog/comments/fdyyf/reddit_billions_... That's awesome :).
Make no mistake, reddit has 1B pageviews a month because of the community -- those of us who wear admin badges are basically just janitors who keep the place running, so to speak.
In light of the threads lately about how well StackOverflow does with their MS stack, I'm wondering how their traffic compares to Reddit, which runs on OSS/Python + Java.
About 1/10th Reddit's traffic, but also, I would think, a much lighter usage pattern (i.e. a lot more writes on Reddit, more quickly changing pages, etc.)