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Re: FIRST Choice- Why do we have this problem?
Let's cut AM a bit of slack, folks. As one of the few people on CD who has actually run big sites, it's not as simple as "spin up a couple more EC2/web role instances and you're golden."
Building a transactional ecommerce site that goes from zero utilization to a peak that lasts only a couple hours a year is a tricky endeavor, particularly a big investment in testing. This site probably takes a load similar to a Ticketmaster ticket sale for a popular 20000 seat arena show.
They clearly put much more effort this year into making it work, and ran into an unforeseen problem. They know it's broken. Let's let 'em fix it.
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