[stuck_in_the_ma]

When you run websites / APIs, nobody remembers the months of time stretch while your site was up -- they just remember the hour of downtime when you go down.

My site only handles ~ 350 million requests a month but even at that small scale, it's very tough.

[sriram_malhar]

Right, but the GP seemed to indicate that reddit outages are a common enough occurrence i their experience to declare them chowderheads, and I was skeptical about the stated downtime. Neither my experience nor reddit's own stats corroborate what they are saying.