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color=#0000ff size=2>I caught a glimpse of the page a bit ago and only a little
over $700 had been given away.</FONT></SPAN></DIV><BR>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> cialug-bounces@cialug.org
[mailto:cialug-bounces@cialug.org] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Matthew
Nuzum<BR><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, January 07, 2010 10:24 AM<BR><B>To:</B>
Central Iowa Linux Users Group<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Cialug] Sparkfun Free
Day?<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<DIV class=gmail_quote>On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 8:55 AM, Lee Henderson <SPAN
dir=ltr><<A
href="mailto:leemhenderson@gmail.com">leemhenderson@gmail.com</A>></SPAN>
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<DIV>"SparkFun Electronics has been temporarily closed while necessary
upgrades are installed and configured." Reads the website now.</DIV>
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<DIV>Wow they supposedly already prepared for this with recent
upgrades<BR><FONT color=#888888></FONT><BR></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR>I
don't think so. Last night I checked and they appear to have only two web
servers, one for dynamic content and ssl, another for static
content.<BR><BR>There's over 2,000 people in the IRC channel so presumambly
there's more than that hitting their website. They just can't handle the
number of connections they're reporting.<BR><BR>Ubuntu.com uses 5 or more
front end web servers for busy days and we don't use SSL or dynamic content on
our website (we serve from a static cache updated at frequent
intervals).<BR><BR>There was a contest to see how quick they can dish out
100k. I'll bet it will be lunch time before they hit it.<BR clear=all><BR>--
<BR>Matthew Nuzum<BR>newz2000 on freenode, skype, linkedin, <A
href="http://identi.ca">identi.ca</A> and twitter<BR></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>