[Noisebridge-discuss] Human powereed DDOS idea

[Zedd Epstein]

I got through, it made me happy.

On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 1:20 PM, Glen Jarvis <glen at glenjarvis.com> wrote:

>
>
> actually, they just installed new servers a couple of weeks ago, and
> figured this was a fun way of stress testing them :-)
>
>
> They were modifying code an hour before as well and took the site down for
> a bit in preparation...  Not the best QA I've ever seen :(
>
> And, I wouldn't have minded if all sales were completed within a few
> minutes and I missed out. I'd known it was truly first-come-first-served.
> But, instead, it was whoever was lucky enough to get through... and,
> inefficient on all fronts (ours and theirs)..
>
> To be fair, though, I don't think they thought this would be as popular as
> it was. It hit slashdot around an hour before and was also on the #1 Google
> trend.
>
> With that said, however, it still worked out. They have a lot of
> advertising/traffic coming in (even now) from the promotion.. So, quite a
> few people were disappointed, but I bet they still made a lot of new people
> happy. Who knows, maybe they'll make so much money that they'll go back,
> look at people who couldn't get through (i.e., still have things in their
> baskets but were trying to check out), and give us a discount or another
> promotion..
>
> Glen
>
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