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Originally Posted by Cory
I'm no expert in webhosting, but I'm pretty sure you can pay someone who does this for a living to host your website for a short duration.
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That's what chief delphi does (or at least used to do). When build season starts, the number of users gets close to 1,000 on at a time, so the server is improved/more servers are added to keep the site running well.
I have a hard time believing that FIRST and AndyMark aren't able to predict the number of people who will be using the website, and that the site crashes because of the sheer number of people on it. I think it's some type of software issue where the web server has a memory leak or becomes unresponsive if a certain series of actions are performed.
That being said, the site has been in development for a while now, and I think the goal of making it work before kickoff may be a little bit unrealistic, so I'm curious to see how FIRST will respond with a new solution to get the parts out.