[ttakashima]

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.

I wonder if FIRST has approached any of these major companies. They may need to in the future though if this keeps happening.