90% of revenues go to moderators and power users.... and where exactly are these revenues coming from?
So far, all these alternatives I'm reading about can't convincingly explain how they plan to pay for themselves.
So far, all these alternatives I'm reading about can't convincingly explain how they plan to pay for themselves.
So that's 15m requests per day. That's about 200 per second. Couldn't you do that on a single server using just PHP? Obviously these are just ballpark estimates but really.
When you say uptime similar to reddit, do you mean uptime similar to reddit now? Or similar to early reddit? Early reddit constantly threw errors at busy times.
For most of its existence, Reddit hasn't been able to convincingly explain how it can pay for itself, and it still can't. The company currently isn't and I don't think has ever been profitable.
Profits may be optional (depending on the goals of the organization), but breakeven is mandatory.
so there's that