“A large-scale concert on sale is, in essence, a denial-of-service attack.” And unfortunately, on July 24, service was denied.
Fascinating. It seems like quite a few of the would-be-competitors, even given the chance to compete, end up failing on the technical side of things (can't deal with thousands of concurrent requests).
Sounds like Google App Engine would be the way to go, now that they've got their high-availability option. I've read several stories about startups on GAE handling sudden huge traffic spikes without drama.
Fascinating. It seems like quite a few of the would-be-competitors, even given the chance to compete, end up failing on the technical side of things (can't deal with thousands of concurrent requests).