Quote from: bbjansen on June 21, 2011, 07:38:30 PM

Quote from: kodaz on June 21, 2011, 07:33:33 PM

Looks like their claim site is being inundated.

Server connection keeps resetting. Probably 1000 people submitting and resubmitting to get their claims in.
Roll Eyes

Why is it so hard for them to do this right. If you know your server(s) can't handle 1000-2000 form requests at a time than be creative and do it per continent or area. For example only allow people in North America to submit the first 3 hours, than people in Europe, than Asia, etc. I have seen many businesses do this before and I have done it before too when I had to enable a mass password reset on my website/online game which had 34000 accounts.

Even so this would result in a DDOS style attack you are still getting requests from the users, you are denying them access to the page but you still had to accept the request to begin with. So they use much less bandwidth with that tactic but it could still be an issue.

Also it might ACTUALLY be a DDOS attack. im sure the guy who crashed the market probably doesn't like what is happening