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Websites crash under unexpected traffic all the time. Why should we care about this one?
by mooism2 15y ago
Websites 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.