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Reddit Downtime Postmortem

Cause of Outage

On March 14th, Reddit experienced a significant outage that left the site inaccessible for several hours. The outage was caused by a combination of factors, including:

• A large influx of traffic to the site, which overwhelmed our servers.
• A software bug that caused our servers to crash.
• A hardware failure that affected our network.

Impact of Outage

The outage had a significant impact on Reddit, including:

• The site was inaccessible to users for several hours.
• Users were unable to post or comment on content.
• The site's search function was unavailable.

Response to Outage

We immediately began working to resolve the outage. We deployed additional servers to handle the increased traffic. We also fixed the software bug that caused our servers to crash. And we replaced the failed hardware that affected our network.

Prevention of Future Outages

We are taking steps to prevent future outages from occurring. These steps include:

• Investing in more robust hardware and software.
• Improving our monitoring and alerting systems.
• Developing and testing disaster recovery plans.

We apologize for the inconvenience that this outage caused. We are committed to providing a reliable and accessible service to our users.

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