What do you get when you combine the Internet traffic tsunami of a Steve Jobs MacWorld keynote with the uptime track record of Twitter? Not much Twittering, that’s for sure. Bloggers who wanted to track the keynote commentary on Twitter found the
service was unusable [1], hopelessly clogged by activity. It wasn’t alone, as the
Apple Store [2] and
MacWorldExpo [3] sites were also knocked offline by the huge traffic from web surfers trying to view or discuss Jobs’ presentation.
Here’s the real bottom line on this afternoon’s outages: they’re nothing new. While I was at Netcraft, the downtime ripples from the MacWorld keynote were an annual event on the Netcraft blog. Both the Apple Store and MacWorldExpo sites were knocked offline during the
2005 keynote [4] and
again in 2006 [5]. No, Steve Jobs isn’t any more powerful today than he was yesterday – at least when it comes to wreaking havoc on web site uptime. It was business as usual for a MacWorld keynote.
Rich Miller is the founder and editor-in-chief of Data Center Knowledge, and has been reporting on the data center sector since 2000. He has tracked the growing impact of high-density computing on the power and cooling of data centers, and the resulting push for improved energy efficiency in these facilities.
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[1] service was unusable: http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2008/01/15/hey-steve-you-broke-the-internet/
[2] Apple Store: http://paul.kedrosky.com/archives/2008/01/15/steve_jobs_prov.html
[3] MacWorldExpo: http://uptime.netcraft.com/perf/graph?site=www.macworldexpo.com&range=86400&collector=all
[4] 2005 keynote: http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2005/01/12/apple_store_macworld_expo_sites_slowed_by_heavy_traffic.html
[5] again in 2006: http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2006/01/10/macworld_expo_site_falters_during_jobs_keynote.html
[6] Rich Miller: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/author/richm/
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