[mkramlich]

Yep. And there's that whole asymptotic cost/complexity curve where as you chase more 9's of perfection, your cost and complexity rises out of proportion to the value you're getting. At the end of the day, no matter how much we might like Reddit, it's still just a website with social discussion forums and link sharing, full of non-essential chatter and pictures of kitties. (Again, I love Reddit, don't get me wrong, but it's far from a Mission Critical resource for any business or person's life.) So achieving perfect reliability & performance is probably not worth the cost/pain.