noctolater:
On IRC, @brennen said we killed the Apache Server and they had to restart it.
Hopefully the sessions are still intact.
Drakkn:
Itās zooming now. 50k
looks like its my time to give up. I am still loading to get in my cart.
master_of_robots:
1 beer down, cracking open number 2. Iām at the payment stage.
Just took 1 shotā¦ blehā¦
BIG - for SPFā¦ didnāt they expect such amount of connections? why thei didnāt prepare earlierā¦ waste of time in hope of miracleā¦ think never will come back to spfā¦
I can get into my cart, but the checkout window is where it gets locked up for meā¦
Gah, canāt get checkout to accept my address.
This is quite exciting/excruciating.
$47730 @ 11:29 CST
ahhhhhhhh nooooooooo
got to shipping
then crashed at this:
javascript:verify_checkoutShipping();
well, its a JS call and now you have to start from square 1 again to reload the page? 
looks like restarting the server fixed it for a minute or two tops
I was just able to enter my crdit card. I hope thats a good thing!
It crashed on the next page though
i hope their idea of mitigation is not āRestart the web server over and overā!! 
$59,730.91.
just under $60,000
62k
still cant make it past the darned javascript call shippping screen
This is officially retarded. I havenāt seen my shopping cart, which I meticulously prepared last night, since the games began.
Love the idea, but not worth the migraine.
F5 ing it over and over is a waste of time, and it also ties up the servers even more so it is self defeating
unsped:
it will be ironic that after giving away 100,000 dollars in free stuff there is a high probability that the net result will be:
new unlikely to be repeat customers with multiple accounts and scripts will get the majority of sales, the majority of those will be resold.
loyal customers will spend hours staring at a blank webpage that wonāt load, be late for work/school ultimately give up and be mad at sparkfun for how poorly the thing was run and ultimately have a worse opinion of the company.
i applaud them for trying but i think the growing pains might sting a bit. i think it probably should have been a lottery system where winners had a ādayā to redeem the codes (tying the code to an account or shipping address)
however if you think about it maybe the sparkfun crew are very smart, if its slammed all day and it ends at 11pm they might only give away 20-30 dollars worth of stuff
in all seriousness best of luck to you guys!
IAWTP.
because its meant to be a thank you to everyone should of locked it down to people who have at least 1 order already.
Ide be interested in seeing some stats as to the % sales for this free day who were first time and then in 6 months see how many of them have bought anything else.
yes i am grumpy about it. no thereās nothing i can do about it.
geduxaz:
BIG - for SPFā¦ didnāt they expect such amount of connections? why thei didnāt prepare earlierā¦ waste of time in hope of miracleā¦ think never will come back to spfā¦
They did prepare earlier. If you read the blog, you would have read about the shiny new servers. Iām sure theyāre set up to deal with well over 100% normal capacity. What you (and all the other complainers) donāt understand is that this is an abnormal load.
- Ed
HawkEye_Pierce:
I was just able to enter my crdit card. I hope thats a good thing!It crashed on the next page though
Crashed or timedout? It timed out on me a good 6 times over about 20 minutes before it went through. It retained the number though!
I canāt get past the verify shippingā¦