[Cialug] Sparkfun Free Day?

[Lee Henderson]

Unfortunately this is $100,000 or two hours, whichever comes first. Doesn't
look likely that they'll hit the max at all.



On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 10:23 AM, Matthew Nuzum <newz at bearfruit.org> wrote:

>
> On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 8:55 AM, Lee Henderson <leemhenderson at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> "SparkFun Electronics has been temporarily closed while necessary upgrades
>> are installed and configured."  Reads the website now.
>>
>> Wow they supposedly already prepared for this with recent upgrades
>>
>>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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).
>
> 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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