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“A large-scale concert on sale is, in essence, a denial-of-service attack.” And unfortunately, on July 24, service was denied. Fascinating. It seems like quite
by d_r 16y ago
“A large-scale concert on sale is, in essence, a denial-of-service attack.” And unfortunately, on July 24, service was denied.
Fascinating. It seems like quite a few of the would-be-competitors, even given the chance to compete, end up failing on the technical side of things (can't deal with thousands of concurrent requests).
- DennisP 16y agoSounds like Google App Engine would be the way to go, now that they've got their high-availability option. I've read several stories about startups on GAE handling sudden huge traffic spikes without drama.