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

Re:Poll results

[morgan_greywolf]

Obviously the current young generation has no idea the impact MJ had on the world.

Like what? The Moonwalk? Popularizing the wearing of a single white sequined glove and red multi-zippered leather jackets? A resurgence in the popularity of Vincent Price? Making Quincy Jones even more richer and more obnoxious than he already was? Giving Eddie Van Halen bragging rights for the one of the longest running #1 songs ever?

Re:Poll results

[vertinox]

How about having the biggest selling album ever?

And this improves our lives how?

Some people have the record for growing the world's biggest pumpkin, but I'm more concerned with people working on solutions to stop world hunger and cure cancer.

Re:Wikipedia article

[grub]

The Michael Jackson Wikipedia article was inaccessible for several hours yesterday too.

There was an editing war going on because they couldn't agree on which to use: "pedophile" or "paedophile"

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Re:Poll results

[phantomcircuit]

Oh screw off, culture and the arts are an important part of defining "who we are" as a race. Without our movies, music, paintings and books we would completely loose our sense of who we are, and where we've been. (books in particular, do you really think the world would not be negatively effected if all of the classics simply ceased to exist over night?)

Maybe all those classics majors would get out there and ya know... do something useful?

Re:Poll results

[flyneye]

"How about having the biggest selling album ever? Its been several decades now and nobody else has come close."

          This proves only that most people are idiots and will listen to and admire anything they're told is good. The music industry outs way more idiots than talent. The reason Jackoff was popular is that he was cooperative with production and easy to market with a built in brand name. No talent required. None seen.

Re:Poll results

[flyneye]

Your logic and reason betray you as the intellectually typical Mickey Jerkoff fan.

Re:Poll results

[Rockoon]

I didn't miss anything

You admitted to having inappropriate relationships with young boys.

I'm just thinking of the children.