Any one with inside information on what is going on? Are they running their own server farm? Are they having problems adapting their software to work with multiple servers? Otherwise, I don't understand why with the funds coming in they haven't already scaled up if they are using a provider like AWS. The current balance of 15.38 bitcoin is around $3900 USD.
>As for the SignalR issues, I was able to confirm that Voat is running on a single box. Not a big deal given that it's still a hobby project for the developers, but the fact that it's not designed to run on anything other than a single box is an obvious problem. Either remove SignalR or support a backplane for it.
Voat is an ASP.NET application running on windows servers with IIS. As someone with a lot of experience in that stack, I can understand why they're struggling - scaling is more difficult and more expensive on a Windows stack. I also suspect that the voat guys are just inexperienced, I hear that they're just two guys in college and the Github repo says that voat started as a hobby project.
I don't think they initially used a cloud hosting platform that could scale, and I think they are currently migrating everything to a solution that can scale
"Days later, PayPal — the vendor that Voat was using to process more than $8,000 in donations — froze the site’s account, ruling that it violated PayPal’s policy against “certain sexually oriented materials or services.”
Not five hours later, those “sexually oriented materials” came to light on Voat’s front page: Many of the girls pictured nude in the site’s “jailbait” forum, one user observed, are clearly underage."
