They designed the system to handle 1,000,000 submissions per hour
Trouble is, 70% of the population live on the east coast, and I'm guessing many people decided to do their civic duty after dinner
So, several million people all tried to log on at the same time from different location, this is distributed - causing catastrophic failure as the system was overloaded - a denial of service
Government claim the "switched off" the site down to protect the data, (although they also say the data was never at risk). They also say that they wouldn't be bringing it back up that night - yet, less than 3 hours after the failure, I managed to log on successfully - on a site the government said was "switched off"
Politicians lie - in other breaking news, the sky is blue, water is wet and Phelps wins a gold medal.
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The top or the bottom?
But not an attack
They designed the system to handle 1,000,000 submissions per hour
Trouble is, 70% of the population live on the east coast, and I'm guessing many people decided to do their civic duty after dinner
So, several million people all tried to log on at the same time from different location, this is distributed - causing catastrophic failure as the system was overloaded - a denial of service
Government claim the "switched off" the site down to protect the data, (although they also say the data was never at risk). They also say that they wouldn't be bringing it back up that night - yet, less than 3 hours after the failure, I managed to log on successfully - on a site the government said was "switched off"
Politicians lie - in other breaking news, the sky is blue, water is wet and Phelps wins a gold medal.
"I tried every tincture and poultice and tonic and patent medicine there is, and all I really needed was the blood of a young boy" - C.M. Burns
Unfortunately, only every 1000 years
100 years, surely
Uhmmm bytes/sec will NEVER = bits/sec * 8 ( or 9 or 10 or 13? or 14?)
Bytes per second = bits per second / 8 (or 9 or 10 or 13? or 14?)
Geez