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You can never, ever, register all the variations and new TLDs come out every year.
In this day and age, users are not quite that stupid and all modern browsers have phishing site checks built in.
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It's not the servers' fault. Even Google would have terrible uptime if they only had five engineers -- regardless of how many servers they had.
Not in the case of Reddit? As far as I know, Reddit's main issue is constant 502 errors/requests timing out, which to my knowledge would indicate they constantly hit the limits of their webservers or don't understand how to load balance.
* Move to a new provider
* Change the way things work so that the job can be spread across more servers
* Fix suboptimal things
All three of those options are extremely difficult to do quickly with a skeleton crew. Reddit's been improving scalability as fast as 3-4 engineers can, but their traffic is growing even faster.
This is a good example of coming to the right conclusion for the wrong reasons. Big things are indeed coming for reddit, but it has a lot more to do with Conde Nast finally investing some money in personnel than the fact that they registered redditgreen.com and redditblue.com. http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/11/reddit-programmer/
This.