On 10-28-2013, 20:27, Oren wrote:
On Mon, 28 Oct 2013 16:18:30 -0700 (PDT), "
wrote:
Well they did spend $400mil, if they didn't get the appropriate
hardware, someone should get fired. But except for some lame
attempts to claim that the website couldn't handle the traffic,
because the interest was so high, I haven't heard anyone blame
the hardware.

A web browser packet request is - 8 bytes to a URL.

The packets DID not cause the crash - if they handle the transactions
with a few packets.

8 bytes requested is not crashing the system.

An http GET is more than eight bytes. But it's still not enough to
crash a webserver. It's what the webserver and the services it calls
does or tries to do that may or may not cause a crash.

--
Wes Groleau

There are some ideas so wrong that only a
very intelligent person could believe in them.
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