[Cialug] Sparkfun Free Day?

[Matthew Nuzum]

Done. 11:45 our time, or 1:45 after they started they reached $100k.
Apparently 2 hours was enough. :-)

On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 11:36 AM, Nathan C. Smith <nathan.smith at ipmvs.com>wrote:

>  I heard on another list they are up to $30K.  I just got in a second ago
> but no dice on checkout.
>
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> Behalf Of *jrnosee at gmail.com
> *Sent:* Thursday, January 07, 2010 11:36 AM
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> *To:* Central Iowa Linux Users Group
> *Subject:* Re: [Cialug] Sparkfun Free Day?
>
> 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:
>
>>
>>
>>  On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 10:58 AM, Lee Henderson <leemhenderson at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Unfortunately this is $100,000 or two hours, whichever comes first.
>>> Doesn't look likely that they'll hit the max at all.
>>>
>>
>> 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)
>>
>> That means it started at 10AM CST, and goes until (no later than) Midnight
>> tonight.
>>
>>
>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>   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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