Hugely popular link sharing and discussion siteReddithas been down for over two hours, leading tooutbursts of frustrationon Twitter from its users, or “Redditors”.
The Conde Nast-ownedsite, known for its strong sense of community, hit theone billion page views per monthmark in January, meaning that downtime of this length is pretty significant – especially for those addicts used to reading itall day.
Many users are seeing Reddit’s version of Twitter’s failwhale (below), which indicates that the site is currenty under “heavy load”, although we’re hearing that some appear to be able to access certain pages sporadically. We’ve contacted Reddit for further information and will update this post when we receive it.
UPDATE:Reddit notes on itsFacebook page: “Eating the leftover Huevos Rancheros was a bad idea. Working on getting the site back up to full speed ASAP. sorry for the increase in productivity, but thanks for being patient.” The site appears to be recovering.
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UPDATE 2:Reddit explains to us: “We lost two Amazon instances at the same time for unknown reasons, and then our automated redundant system failed to start due to the nature of the instance failure”
Story byMartin SFP Bryant
Martin SFP Bryant is the founder of UK startup newsletter PreSeed Now and technology and media consultancy Big Revolution. He was previously(show all)Martin SFP Bryant is the founder of UK startup newsletterPreSeed Nowand technology and media consultancyBig Revolution. He was previously Editor-in-Chief at TNW.
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