The Mozilla Foundation’s main web site and download site have experienced availability problems in the early minutes of availability for the hotly-anticipated Firefox 3 web browser. Uptime charts from the web monitoring service Netcraft shows that the direct download site at
download.mozilla.org [1] is faring somewhat better than the main site at
www.mozilla.org [2], although both sites have experienced availability challenges.
The official release of Firefox 3 was announced as 1 pm Eastern time today, which the company has deemed “
Download Day [3],” as part of a campaign asking users to download Firefox 3 on the first day it is released to estanlish a
world record [4] for the largest number of software downloads in 24 hours. Accounts at
Slashdot [5] suggest the download sites began experiencing problems within minutes of the launch.
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.
Article printed from Data Center Knowledge: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com
URL to article: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2008/06/17/mozilla-struggles-with-firefox-3-download-traffic/
URLs in this post:
[1] download.mozilla.org: http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/performance?site=download.mozilla.org
[2] www.mozilla.org: http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/performance?site=www.mozilla.org
[3] Download Day: http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/06/17/its-firefox-3-world-record-download-day-but-im-still-waiting/
[4] world record: http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/080617-073044
[5] Slashdot: http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/06/17/1250229
[6] Rich Miller: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/author/richm/
Click here to print.
