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Originally Posted by Cory
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.
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It's not worth it for FIRST/AndyMark to invest in a web server that can handle 2000+ connections for 30 minutes when it only needs to handle at most* 10 connections for the rest of the season.
A 2 week lottery window would spread out the connections.
*Except maybe kickoff.