You might have noticed that the widely hyped $100 Xbox sale at Amazon did not go as planned. Under the combined effect of digg, slashdot and many simillar sites, their servers buckled, caught on fire and died. It’s a shame. One would think that a multi-million dollar company which makes thousands of transactions per second all over the world would anticipate something like this. I mean, lets look at what was happening here:
- you are selling an Xbox for half free
- on a national holiday when everyone is likely to be home
- during the pre-christmas buying frenzy
- with a small limit, meaning everyone will try to get it the minute it goes live
- digg and other websites linked to your sale
Knowing all of this how could you not anticipate some very heavy traffic? It’s a shame!
I initially kinda wanted to do this, but then I overslept. When I woke up I decided I don’t even care enough to check if they are still available.
Oh well…
[tags]xbox, xbox 360, amazon, amazon sale, sale, thanksgiving sale[/tags]
