Can steemit hardware keep up with the userbase exploding? by anduweb

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steemit · @anduweb · Jul 14 '16

$18.67

Can steemit hardware keep up with the userbase exploding?

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<p>With steemit users growing steadily, now at over 1500 users/day &nbsp;joining the platform and posting, commenting, upvoting etc. along the other 22k users already on the platform, I am genuinely asking myself what's the hardware that driver the steemit platform and how scalable is so that it can successfully keep a reasonable service for everyone to enjoy using it.</p>
<p><img src="https://media.giphy.com/media/m9EQQDn3ujpio/giphy.gif" width="520" height="310"/></p>
<p>I, for one, hit a small hiccup yesterday when trying to check out new posts and was greeted with an error 500 but it soon recovered after a few refreshes of the page.</p>
<p>What are the limits of the current environment? How scalable is it?</p>
<p>Other two very important questions:</p>
<ul>
  <li>How protected is the platform against DDos attaacks. We know that once a certain entity comes to light (like steemit has achieved in the week) there will be attempts at hacking it, slowing it down, breaking it etc.</li>
  <li>Second: Hacking. Steemit seems to be rather open (to bots, listing stats, etc.). How protected are our accounts and all the hard work we've put into the content we create and the value of our accounts?</li>
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<p>Genuinely looking forward to your knowledgeable comments!</p>
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@anduweb · Jul 14 '16

$0.03

Soooo... I just got one of these while refreshing this very page.
This post's question is becoming more pressing I guess..

![Steemit error](https://s32.postimg.org/jtllu5mnp/steemit_down.png)

👍 cdubendo, proctologic

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@anduweb · Jul 15 '16

Well..it seems steemit just got hacked. It recovered it seems but Security seems to be at the heart of the issue in any platform. It's good to see an official action and position towards this aspect.

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@anduweb · Jul 18 '16

I keep getting 503 Service Temporarily Unavailable-nginx and Internal Server Error when navigating on Steemit. Anyone else getting this?
Also, anyone know why?

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@herbert-boss · Jul 14 '16 (edited)

I love this community and I have the same questions. With the infrastructure still in its infancy how protected are we really? The more attention the platform gets the more people we will attract that will try to break the system.  I'm still a newbie, lots to learn and looking forward to what the future will bring.

👍 proctologic, anduweb

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@veryhype · Jul 14 '16

$0.62

According to the white papers:

The Steem network is built upon Graphene, the same technology that powers BitShares. Graphene has been publicly demonstrated sustaining over 1000 transactions per second on a distributed test network. Graphene can easily scale to 10,000 or more transactions per second with relatively straightforward improvements to server capacity and
communication protocols.


Steem is capable of handling a larger userbase than Reddit. In 2015 Reddit’s 8.7 million users generated an average of 23 comments per second , with an average of 83 comments 13 per year per user. There were 73 million top-level posts, for an average of 2 new posts per second. There were about 7 billion up votes creating an average voting rate of 220 votes per second. All told, if Reddit were operating on a blockchain it would require an average of 250 transactions per second.

👍 benjojo, ihashfury, cdubendo, crypt0, igster, substance, fenrir, xenon2, anduweb

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@anduweb · Jul 14 '16

Thanks for your comment and details. In theory yes, that is how things are, but are things in reality as well like this?
Then what about the security?

👍 proctologic

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