<br><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> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<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>