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that's just ~12 queries/sec..not that huge a deal..

There are 2,592,000 seconds in a 30 month day so actually that's more like 104 page views per second. But that also does not count peaks (peak is likely 250+) and that each page view requires multiple queries.

Either way, no need to hate on the traffic figures of what everyone knows is a very large website.

Also, it was back in 2009[0]. In December 2011, they were up to 2.07bn page views (~750 pages/sec on average)

[0] according to http://blog.reddit.com/2012/01/january-2012-state-of-servers..., December 2010 saw 829 million page views

Interesting is also traffic peaks. The IAMA from President Obama a few days ago really stress tested Reddit:

http://blog.reddit.com/2012/08/potus-iama-stats.html

> At the peak of the IAMA reddit was receiving over 100,000 pageviews per minute.

> In preparation for the IAMA, we initially added 30 dedicated servers (20%~ increase) just for the comment thread. This turned out not to be enough, so we added another 30 dedicated servers to the mix. At peak, we were transferring 48 MB per second of reddit to the internet. This much traffic overwhelmed our load balancers which caused a lot of the slowness you probably experienced on reddit.

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