News Sites Slammed By Michael Jackson Traffic

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."

Comments

"cloud blogger"?

[siddesu]

shouldn't that mighty concept get its own word, like "clogger" or something?

Re:"cloud blogger"?

[Dunbal]

I believe "cloggers" are tap dancers and the name is derived from the wooden shoes from Netherlands.

      You obviously never had a job cleaning toilets in a public place when you were a teenager.

Re:Michael who?

[GGardner]

Michael Jackson, great guy, wrote books about beer, died a couple of years ago: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Jackson_(writer)

A sad and happy day

[elrous0]

Sad for the fans, happy for the millions of kids who can now safely venture outside

Re:A sad and happy day

[ripnet]

Michael Jackson wants to be buried at sea, preferably attached to two buoys

What's the difference between Michael Jackson and Alex Ferguson?  Ferguson will be playing Giggs in August

His family have decided to have his body melted and turned into toys. It will give kids the chance to play with him for a change.

He did manage to whisper one thing to the paramedics on the way to the hospital "get me into a children's ward"

Monkey for sale, house trained, can dance a bit, contact never never land USA

Reports of his death are incorrect. He's been found in a children's ward having a stroke.

Apparently it wasn't a stroke, but skin cancer...Don't blame it on the sunshine..

I thought they were melting him down in to cups so that kids could still get their lips around his rim?

Michael Jackson didn't actually die of a heart attack................It was food poisoning from eating 15 year old nuts.

Out of respect, McDonalds have released the Mc Jackson burger, 50 year old meat between 10 year old buns...

It was touch and go in the Hospital, and that was just on the Children's ward....

MJ's ghost has been seen walking the wards of a Children's hospital. Looks like he will continue to try and put the willies up small children.

They released candle in the wind for Princess Diana. Apparently they are releasing Rolf Harris' 2 little boys for Jackson.

Jackson has cancelled his upcoming dates. They were James aged 9 and Tom 11.

On his death bed Michael Jackson requested that his ashes be packaged into a box of Rice Krispies, It is believed that this is so that he can have the feeling of going through a ten year old's @rse one last time

In a tribute to the late Michael Jackson, his close friend Rolf Harris will be doing two little boys at his funeral

Elton John will be playing at his funeral - "Don't Let Your Son Go Down on Me"...

His body was found slumped over a pram he had apparently tripped over.  A police spokesman said it was too early to determine whether they should blame it on the buggy.

Los Angeles police have now been round to Michael Jackson's Neverland ranch following his death. It is being reported that they found Class A drugs in his kitchen, Class B drugs in his bathroom and Class 4C in his bedroom.

MJ passed away at 3:15am. Which is ironically when the big hand touches the little hand.

Jockeys this weekend will wear black armbands in remembrance of MJ, who has successfully ridden more 3 year olds than anyone else.

Re:A sad and happy day

[SnarfQuest]

So you're claiming it was consential?

Re:Puns

[MyLongNickName]

I predict a flood of MJ puns in /.'s near future.

Please tag this article "justtellthemtobeatit"

Thanks.

Re:in other news???

[elrous0]

All I can say is Mark Sanford had better send flowers.

Personal View

[BigBlueOx]

Oh man. Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett dead on the same day. What a sad day for humanity. How will we cope? I keep checking the news outlets to see what Angelina Jolie has to say about all this.

Hey! What ever happened to that Ir-whatever thing? You know. Irast or Irag or something. You know. People marching about something somewhere. Whatever happened to that? Did Angelina Jolie ever comment?

Re:Personal View

[rezac]

When Farrah Fawcett arrived at heaven, God granted her one wish. She wished for all the children in the world to be safe. So God killed Michael Jackson

autopsy footage already available!

[ayahner]

I can't believe they got the autopsy footage bootlegged and on the interwebs so fast...

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5830866813023883728

=TRAGEDY

[Stenchwarrior]

BUBBLES!!!! Dear GOD did somebody think of POOR BUBBLES!?!?!

Re:Poll results

[itsthebin]

yeah - "he touched a lot of people"

Re:Not only news

[Anonymous Coward]

Showing off her pussy is much more interesting, but that's just me...

let's call this new type of DoS...

[sxpert]

... the MJDoS ;)
defined as "whenever a well known celebrity dies, it takes the Interwebs with it" ;)

Re:*now* you pull the trigger on the story..

[larry bagina]

CmdrTaco died? I know he didn't like "naval [sic] gazing", but I think that's valid slashdot news.

RIP, Rob Malda.

I felt a great disurbance in the '80s Force,

[circletimessquare]

as if millions of sequined gloves and nippleated red swimsuits cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened, and the '80s will never be the same again.

Re:Poll results

[Anonymous Coward]

No you are just broken.
I care about people, it's called empathy. It should be installed by default.

Re:Poll results

[Sponge Bath]

...always getting himself in the media by doing something pretty stupid

His hair catching on fire was a classic. He was an entertainer to the end.

In millions of households...

[Anonymous Coward]

"I can't believe he's gone!"

(sob)

(hits F5 to reload)

"No, it's still there. I just can't believe he's gone!"

(sob)

(reload)

etc.

Re:Sales after death

[tttonyyy]

I've never understood why CD and DVD sales leap after the death of a performer. Surely your praise and money are most useful while the performer is still alive?

I guess because you know "The Complete Collection" is actually complete. Like when I bought the Alien Trilogy and then they released Alien: Resurrection. The bastards. Die already.

Re:Wikipedia article

[mcgrew]

A hundred thousand people all trying to update it at once...