[Cialug] Sparkfun Free Day?

[jrnosee at gmail.com]

has anyone been able to even reach the site to see if they're still going?

On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 11:06 AM, Tim Wilson <tim_linux at wilson-home.com>wrote:

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> On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 10:58 AM, Lee Henderson <leemhenderson at gmail.com>wrote:
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>> Unfortunately this is $100,000 or two hours, whichever comes first.
>> Doesn't look likely that they'll hit the max at all.
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> It lasts more than 2 hours:
>    - Starts 9AM MST January 7th, 2010
>    - Ends 11PM MST January 7th, 2010 (or when we hit $100k, whichever comes
> first)
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> That means it started at 10AM CST, and goes until (no later than) Midnight
> tonight.
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>> On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 10:23 AM, Matthew Nuzum <newz at bearfruit.org>wrote:
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>>> On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 8:55 AM, Lee Henderson <leemhenderson at gmail.com>wrote:
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>>>> "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
>>>>
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>>> 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).
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>>> 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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