Initial reports were that insurance.gov got 1M uniques before 8AM on launch day. One can imagine that California's exchange site was also slammed. I'm not goi

Initial reports were that insurance.gov got 1M uniques before 8AM on launch day. One can imagine that California's exchange site was also slammed. I'm not going to argue that this project's budget wasn't bloated, but it's pretty naive to think that your average low-rent startup team could handle it any better. Doing tens of millions of uniques on launch day is a challenge for any team. Most commercial websites with that much traffic have technology budgets in the tens of millions of dollars, if not more.