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- tacojohn, on 06/06/2008, -19/+611Amazon.com is DOWN! Where is your god now?
- ieure, on 06/06/2008, -8/+5126/6/08 NEVER FORGET
- jphillips1, on 06/06/2008, -6/+458Dear Amazon.com,
Unplug and plug back in your router. I'm sure that's what the problem is. - Nick2008, on 06/06/2008, -9/+411Don't worry. Google Cache caught it:
http://209.85.215.104/search?q=cache:u-9ujK3kZn8J: ... - porkdanish, on 06/06/2008, -5/+398I'm guessing that they just took their 2,147,483,648th order.
long int is long - bugsy, on 06/06/2008, -14/+406Amazon sells over 150,000 books a day.
There are 86,400 seconds in a day
Amazon is losing approximately two book sales every second they're down.
A profit of $5/book would be losing $10 every second.
For every hour they're down that would be losing $36,000.
But you figure that it is peak hours for web traffic, so I would estimate double that.
Amazon is losing approximately $72,000 per hour.
Then again I have no idea how much profit they make. But no doubt, they're losing thousands of dollars by the minute. - obijohn, on 06/06/2008, -8/+336Well, you know, since Amazon sells non-DRM'd MP3s, the RIAA probably thinks they are facilitating piracy, so wanna bet MediaDefender is behind this?
- amandamcg25, on 06/06/2008, -5/+280Whoops, someone's team is getting fired.
- trionnis, on 06/06/2008, -10/+286https://www.amazon.com/ --works fine!
- planksconstant, on 06/06/2008, -1/+238AMAZON PRIME TRANSFORM AND ROLL OUT!
- KaivenTor, on 06/06/2008, -2/+188Did somebody unplug the XBox again?
- latras, on 06/06/2008, -11/+173OH NO...CAN'T BUY ANYTHING WITH MY AMAZON PRIME!
- Kavok, on 06/06/2008, -6/+166Nooo ;_; my D&D 4.0 books.
- RajAtWork, on 06/06/2008, -1/+153Given how much they sell stuff other than books, I'd multiply this analysis by at least 8. Rooting for all the sysadmins running around right now.
- melindaroberts, on 06/06/2008, -3/+127ugh! there are books to be bought.
- RomeyRome, on 06/06/2008, -0/+123Maybe they reached their Comcast cap.
- bugsy, on 06/06/2008, -3/+115god now shops at overstock.com
- NathanCH, on 06/06/2008, -12/+119Works fine for me...
- TehGrisp, on 06/06/2008, -1/+98But you have to think, those people are probably going to buy the same thing after Amazon comes back on.
- ieure, on 06/06/2008, -3/+96According to this: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/category/story.cfm?c_id= ...
“At its peak - recorded on 10 December [2007] - Amazon sold more than… 62 items per second.”
Factor in the 4% hit their stock took, and they are losing FAR more than $72k/hr. - ChazKato, on 06/06/2008, -8/+99Some one is getting fired...
- mirableh, on 06/06/2008, -5/+95Amazowned!
- bugsy, on 06/06/2008, -6/+84Good thing I sold my Amazon stock yesterday.
- nutcase, on 06/06/2008, -1/+69what do you think that guy's heart rate is right now
- zulhadm, on 06/06/2008, -8/+73You would think the world's largest online retailer would have multiple hot sites with multiple web farms and at any given moment any of hundreds of web servers could accept traffic destined to www.amazon.com. The fact that the web server is throwing back the error means DNS is working fine. Whatever's going on, someone is getting in BIG trouble!
- Wangzero, on 06/06/2008, -1/+63I'm sure diggers madly hitting their f5 keys doesn't help the situation
- zulhadm, on 06/06/2008, -0/+58LOL you know; they could probably sell t-shirts with that as the logo and make back all the profits they're now losing.
- gambl0r, on 06/06/2008, -3/+58hahaha
long int is long, i love it. - Firehed, on 06/06/2008, -1/+56I wonder if Google is still signed in. I've got a couple things I'd like to purchase on their credit card.
- lesty420, on 06/06/2008, -20/+75MGS4 FTW!
http://www.ps3fanboy.com/2008/06/06/metal-gear-bun ... - rblancarte, on 06/06/2008, -4/+58Well played sir!
- Kisama, on 06/06/2008, -6/+58This is what happens when you sell pre-orders of the MGS4/PS3 bundle.
- latras, on 06/06/2008, -0/+47Seattle blew up, sorry. don't bother coming here. We don't exist *jedi mind trick*
- weaselfingers, on 06/06/2008, -0/+47Well, it's raining a little bit.
- latras, on 06/06/2008, -1/+47I sincerely think that Amazon can handle the load from any story written about it...even on Digg
- dood, on 06/06/2008, -1/+47This assumes that people won't just come back and buy the book later. I'd bet that some won't, but most will. But that's just an uneducated bet.
- ieure, on 06/06/2008, -4/+46WHERE IS YOUR GOD NOW?
The bookstore? Oh, okay. - inactive, on 06/06/2008, -0/+40YES IT DOES, HURRY HELP AMAZON!
- Corr0sive, on 06/06/2008, -4/+41Hes working at Google.
- cafesuada, on 06/06/2008, -2/+39Someone should go and take back the xbox console Jeff Bezos took from the server room for his kids.
- monstaloc, on 06/06/2008, -2/+39Maybe the Piranhas got them.
- zulhadm, on 06/06/2008, -3/+38The most disturbing thing about the outage is the fact that it takes 5 minutes to setup a single web page with an apology for the outage and possibly explanation
- LordPhilMil, on 06/06/2008, -2/+37Ohh thank god...do they have the checkout page cached too?
- combatchuck, on 06/06/2008, -4/+39Unless they buy it somewhere else...
- silent7seven, on 06/06/2008, -2/+36Sad that I knew what you were talking about having only glanced at the number and didn't need to see any context.
- aphexcoil, on 06/06/2008, -1/+33http://www.barnesandnoble.com
- MxM111, on 06/06/2008, -2/+34... and experiments to run
for the people who are still alive... - Soave, on 06/06/2008, -3/+34Hey tomorrow's gonna be 6/7/08. Sweet.
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