[time-nuts] Sparkfun

Robert Darlington rdarlington at gmail.com
Thu Jan 7 16:15:33 UTC 2010


Actually, they upgraded the servers right before the last free day and used
that day as a shake down test for the new systems.  (A month ago or so).   I
think they're just slammed with a lot more customers this time around.

-Bob

On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 8:38 AM, <john.foege at gmail.com> wrote:

> Now, I'm not sure what kind of testing they did, but it seems to me, they
> almost willy-nilly beefed up the servers and annouced Free Day around the
> same time. It doesn't seem they tested the servers to handle such a load, or
> simply the response they are receiving from the public is so massive, that
> they simply underestimated what they needed by a factor of 10! That or their
> webservers aren't configured right =)
>
> John Foege
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Krull <steve-krull at cox.net>
> Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2010 09:52:52
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> Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Sparkfun
>
> Their site has been slow at least since Monday. I wonder if their
> migration to new servers isn't going as well as hoped?
>
>
> On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 8:48 AM, J. L. Trantham wrote:
>
> > Nope, me too.
> >
> > Joe
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
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> > On
> > Behalf Of John Green
> > Sent: Thursday, January 07, 2010 8:28 AM
> > To: time-nuts at febo.com
> > Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Sparkfun
> >
> >
> > I was going to try to purchase a Prologix GPIB converter but I can't
> > access
> > their site. I sent an e mail informing them but have not gotten a
> > reply. Is
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