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Target's website crashes
- 8ig8 15y agoCurrently down. Here's the error page: https://s3.amazonaws.com/resultcaptures/77c40fdfb3e0b314a29bc8fb27f46ab3.full.png https://s3.amazonaws.com/resultcaptures/77c40fdfb3e0b314a29b...
- mooism2 15y agoWebsites crash under unexpected traffic all the time. Why should we care about this one?
- 8ig8 15y agoFrom my perspective, I find it interesting when a high profile website goes down for an extended period of time. The cost of downtime for a retailer like Target is high so I would assume that they put proportionately high resources in place to protect against it. This is not a blogger's WordPress site that went down due to a viral post. So to me it's newsworthy. Some HN readers may be trying to manage hosting resources for their online businesses, so I was hoping it would offer a little perspective to them.