A couple of thoughts -- - Refusing to let people into the site at all is probably the best approach, if you find yourself completely swamped with traffic. A customer who sees 10-second ping times is likely to be even more annoyed than one who gets a 404. What they should have done, though, is served those people a static text page apologizing for the delay and inviting them to try again later... while at the same time trying to discourage them from hitting F5 over and over.
- If their hosting provider isn't capable of temporarily boosting their bandwidth as needed, that's kind of lame. It should be almost impossible to "slashdot" any professionally-run e-commerce site these days. If nothing else, they could have rented some time on EC2 to test their connectivity beforehand. - Somebody may be DoS'ing them. Perhaps DigiKey or Jameco rented a botnet for the occasion. :-P - You can always order Prologix adapters directly from their site at http://www.prologix.biz , although sans the $100 discount. -- john, KE5FX > > There has to be a better way to get a prologix. An hour to get to the > page to order it and now I cannot proceed to the check out section at > all. Ridiculous! > > There is indeed no such thing as a free lunch or a cheap GPIB adapter :^) > > Dan > > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe, go to > https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. > _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
