I'm a developer/sys admin myself and there's so many things that have to be done correctly. Also, expecting hundreds of thousands of users at a single time, after you've never experienced it (load testing can be VERY different than actual usage) is just asking for trouble. While they may be "under attack", I think it's most likely a lot more accurate that they just weren't prepared for the traffic. It'd have been better to do something like adding users in waves – VIPs can invite 5 users/day from Fri - today, and then today thru Wed anyone can invite 10 people/day. You help gradually increase the load while also seeing where the pain points are to fix. Then after that, everyone joins and your probably in a great position.
A short list of things that much be correct and ready:
Huge caching server
Database with proper load balancing
Proper web load balancing
Huge pipe with multiple redundancies
That's just a quick out of the gate thing.
All that said, I do hope and want this to succeed...
They underestimated the demand for the platform. When I heard they were just gonna launch this site without any special consideration for the amount of traffic they were gonna get slammed by I decided I would take the "wait and see"'approach before trying to join it.
What you are stating about Lindell underestimating the platform demand is not correct. I heard his interviews on BardsFM on Friday April 16th. Lindell specifically addressed his servers being ready to handle 1 BILLION accounts.
Not entirely sure why the downvotes...
I'm a developer/sys admin myself and there's so many things that have to be done correctly. Also, expecting hundreds of thousands of users at a single time, after you've never experienced it (load testing can be VERY different than actual usage) is just asking for trouble. While they may be "under attack", I think it's most likely a lot more accurate that they just weren't prepared for the traffic. It'd have been better to do something like adding users in waves – VIPs can invite 5 users/day from Fri - today, and then today thru Wed anyone can invite 10 people/day. You help gradually increase the load while also seeing where the pain points are to fix. Then after that, everyone joins and your probably in a great position.
A short list of things that much be correct and ready:
That's just a quick out of the gate thing.
All that said, I do hope and want this to succeed...
They underestimated the demand for the platform. When I heard they were just gonna launch this site without any special consideration for the amount of traffic they were gonna get slammed by I decided I would take the "wait and see"'approach before trying to join it.
What you are stating about Lindell underestimating the platform demand is not correct. I heard his interviews on BardsFM on Friday April 16th. Lindell specifically addressed his servers being ready to handle 1 BILLION accounts.