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."

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Re:Poll results

[jo42]

And I am very happy to say that I never bought a single one of them or listened to his 'music' by choice.

Re:Poll results

[flyneye]

Do you remember how Benito Mussolini was treated after his death?
The moral of the story is" Don't live life as a self serving asshole feeding off others or your corpse will be disrespected"