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comment by Pharnaces
Pharnaces  ·  4362 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: So I deleted my reddit account...

I'm guessing that they'll get some more servers if the new interest is that high.





matdesigner  ·  4362 days ago  ·  link  ·  

if you read about the architecture of the site, you'd know that scaling across servers/load balancing nodes is non-trivial. And there is a huge difference between balancing API loads and regular UI loads.