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Originally Posted by marccenter
I like the lottery system idea (groups of 100 teams).
Let the rookies all get first crack at it. One hour per group of 100 teams.
Server should not crash and burn this way.
So, it takes a couple of days to get all 5000 teams...
Thoughts?
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Or just put the website on a server that can handle 3000 people all trying to place orders at once.
How many people do you think are purchasing something right now from any major company's website? Over 3000, for sure. They don't have any issues.
This really shouldn't be very hard, but FIRST's history is littered with cases of not being able to handle the volume of web traffic that can be predicted fairly easily.