I can believe they got a lot of hits and site crashed. I just really don't believe they got 300,000 hits in any single second. Also how would they have even kn

I can believe they got a lot of hits and site crashed. I just really don't believe they got 300,000 hits in any single second. Also how would they have even known? since the site would have crashed a long time before that number if they weren't prepared for it.