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And after they spent the past couple of weeks cockily batting away concerns about how they'd handle the traffic load, too. "You're all talking like we don't kno
by handelaar 15y ago
And after they spent the past couple of weeks cockily batting away concerns about how they'd handle the traffic load, too. "You're all talking like we don't know what we're doing" is the line I recall being used several times.
- learc83 15y agoThey did seem to know what they were doing. They put up a temporary static site to handle the traffic. However, their suppliers, who are apparently fairly large companies, haven't been able to handle it. They said they warned them that the traffic would be enormous.
- libria 15y agoObviously people were only expressing concern because they were interested in purchasing reliably, not because they were worried about Rpi's server uptime numbers. It's a little trollish for them to blame their distributors and say "Our site is fine".
- sliverstorm 15y agoSo what are you paying the distributors for then, if not for their infrastructure?
- Devilboy 15y ago'We know what we're doing, we'll just palm it off to some random third party to take the heat!'
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- chrisrhoden 15y agoImagine that you're one of these companies and someone says, "We have 5,000 units for you. We expect that they will sell out in a few hours if you limit them to one per customer." Do you think that (a) they are being realistic about their customers or that (b) your servers will be unable to handle the load described by that scenario or (c) neither or (d) both?
- solarmist 15y agoThey don't. They really don't know what a slashdotting is. Well, the suppliers I mean.
- nicknyc 15y ago"We're so frustrated about the DDOS effect - and apparently some of you are VERY ANGRY. We're really sorry; it's out of our hands." -http://twitter.com/#!/Raspberry_Pi/status/174747109046755328 http://twitter.com/#!/Raspberry_Pi/status/174747109046755328 Supplier 1: RS Components redirected to a product interest page - no purchase option Supplier 2: Premier Farnell redirected to a international region picking page with no US link - no purchase option Traffic wasn't the real problem. People are familiar with lines and queues- I wait in a slow long line every time I go to the grocery store. Seems like they simply did not test their launch with either distributer internationally. Combine that with months of hype and last minute server/traffic arrogance for an angry social mob.
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- bigiain 15y agoSeems to me this is a _great_ reason to use Kickstarter. You get a solid core of pre-purchase data (complete with credit card billing info ready to rock) which lets you much more accurately gauge demand _before_ you need to finalise manufacture/logistics. I'm in the first batch of the ZPM Espresso machines via Kickstarted, which blew out past their expectations by an order of magnitude, and allowed them the opportunity to re-jig production methods and schedules, based on ordering 10 times as many parts as expected.
- scraplab 15y agoSadly, Kickstarter isn't an option for most people outside the US, as you need a US bank account to draw the funds into. A limitation with their Amazon payments system I believe.
- bigiain 15y agoTrue, but I'd bet a person-on-the-ground in the US would have been a fair bit less organisation that the deals they did with RS/Farnell. (See NinjaBlocks for an example - they're a bunch of local-to-me-in-Sydney-Australia guys who got a contact/partner in the US to manage their Kickstarter rego for them)
- emilis_info 15y agoTrue, but why bother? US is only 10% of Internet users and 2x smaller than EU.
- rmc 15y agoSo all your money goes through some random guy in USA? Sounds a bit dodgy and unprofessional…
- arkx 15y agoIndiegogo offers a very similar service without that limitation.
- vidarh 15y ago