Reddit's visitors skyrocket in 2012 with 37 billion page views

Re:Reddit's visitors skyrocket in 2012 with 37 billion page ... by sliverstorm on Tuesday January 01, 2013 @03:50AM (#4992219)

I would guess their costs are several steps above Wikipedia. Yes, Wikipedia is pretty much ubiquitous, but I know personally that I only visit Wikipedia occasionally (i.e. not every day) and I only visit a few pages. On the other hand, when I was an active redditor, I'd visit hundreds of reddit pages every day.

Tack on the part where bandwidth is more expensive than equivalent amounts of storage, and you've got yourself a reddit that costs a lot more than Wikipedia.

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Re:Reddit's visitors skyrocket in 2012 with 37 billion page ... by x3sphere on Tuesday January 01, 2013 @08:14PM (#4994790)

I'm willing to bet Wikipedia uses far more bandwidth than Reddit. Reddit barely hosts any images, it's mostly just all text, plus plenty of sites hotlink Wikipedia images.

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Re:Reddit's visitors skyrocket in 2012 with 37 billion page ... by sliverstorm on Tuesday January 01, 2013 @08:22PM (#4994810)

This is a good point, reddit has plenty of images but they are generally hosted elsewhere. The images they do host directly are fairly static, and can be cached.

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