[AusNOG] Anyone else notice the click frenzy traffic

[Joshua D'Alton]

Typical big business IT fail. Obviously none of them thought to actually
provision a decent system for the event.

On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 7:31 PM, Peter Betyounan <
peter at serversaustralia.com.au> wrote:

> https://www.facebook.com/ClickFrenzyFail
>
> They were quick to get this up
>
> Community
> "We're expecting up to 1 million site visits [to clickfrenzy.com.au] and
> we're prepared for this," the spokesperson said. - Click Frenzy
> representative. NEK MINIT...Site crashes at 6:59pm. HERPA DERP
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 7:28 PM, Nick Adams <nick.adams at reachtel.com.au>wrote:
>
>> Lots of sites falling apart. Kogan is intermittently returning nginx
>> gateway timeouts, David Jones is AWOL and MYER is returning 503 Unavailable.
>>
>> Pretty disappointing turn out for the big retailers.
>>
>> Nick Adams
>> ReachTEL Pty Ltd
>>
>>
>>
>> On 20/11/12 6:22 PM, Emily Ozols wrote:
>>
>>> Probably something to do with this:
>>> http://www.news.com.au/**technology/kogan-telstra-leak-**
>>> click-frenzy-discounts-ahead-**of-online-sales/story-**
>>> e6frfro0-1226519898321<http://www.news.com.au/technology/kogan-telstra-leak-click-frenzy-discounts-ahead-of-online-sales/story-e6frfro0-1226519898321>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 7:19 PM, Matt Perkins <matt at spectrum.com.au>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Anyone else notice the click frenzy traffic. We noticed quite a spike
>>>> before
>>>> clickfrenzy.com.au died.
>>>>
>>>> Matt.
>>>>
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