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They 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 larg
by learc83 15y ago
They 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?