News Sites Slammed By Michael Jackson Traffic

Posted by kdawson on Friday June 26, 2009 @01:00AM from the off-to-neverland dept.

miller60 writes "Major news sites struggled to remain online yesterday evening as news of Michael Jackson's death triggered huge waves of Internet traffic. TMZ.com broke the news and was quickly overwhelmed, while Twitter turned off features to handle its load. They weren't alone. Keynote Systems reports that ABC, AOL, CBS, CNN Money, MSNBC, NBC, and Yahoo! News all experienced performance problems between 6:15 and 9 pm Eastern time, when the average availability of news sites tracked by Keynote dropped from almost 100% to 86%. The cloud computing crowd immediately jumped on the traffic jams to argue their case. 'Not have a cloud bursting strategy in the age of cloud computing isn't just wrong — it's idiotic,' wrote one cloud blogger."

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Re:Poll results by tomhudson · 2009-06-26 01:11 · Score: 1, Flamebait

"Right now the results of the /. poll are showing the majority of votes as him being forgettable. Obviously the current young generation has no idea the impact MJ had on the world. Perhaps in time they will learn."
Riiight - Michael Jackson - the same guy who added a whole new meaning to "Think of the children!" Next up: a new Fox DocuDrama/Horror Flick: "Michael Jackson Unmasked!"