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So if a competitor site is launching, shut down your site for the day and redirect all traffic to their site in an attempt to flood their server? Interesting ta

• skolor 17y ago
  Think of the potentially cool sites that were ruined by a poor launch day performance. The Google/Monopoly mashup of a few months ago is the best example I can think of recently. They launched, the servers crashed and burned from the load, and by the time they were fully operational (almost a week), no one was interested any more. You would have to know your competition is going to be launched with a bare-bones setup, or at least that they have a considerably lower estimate of their launch users than you do. At that point, make sure your users know about the competition, and go down right when it launches. No guarantee it will work, and if they manage to weather the beating from increased users you will probably lose quite a few, but there is the potential...
• johnrob 17y ago
  Forget redirecting traffic - just put an invisible pixel on your site that hits the competitor. Imagine if google did this... they could kill any site!
  • JeremyChase 17y ago
    Yes; we should all DOS the competition. Brilliant plan.