<div>Unfortunately this is $100,000 or two hours, whichever comes first. Doesn't look likely that they'll hit the max at all.</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 10:23 AM, Matthew Nuzum <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:newz@bearfruit.org">newz@bearfruit.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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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" target="_blank">leemhenderson@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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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></div>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.
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