tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1930103.post9012332581814123470..comments2024-03-28T09:33:26.444+00:00Comments on No Rock And Roll Fun: Glastonbury tickets updateSimon Hayes Budgenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07084524317888577404noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1930103.post-2615280643199747072009-10-12T16:30:41.398+00:002009-10-12T16:30:41.398+00:00It's not through the glasto website, it's ...It's not through the glasto website, it's through seeticket.com<br /><br />To be fair, they crash for ever big event and not just Glastonbury. So they're at least consistently crap, with no special drop in quality for Eavis.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11807517683843894996noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1930103.post-29237584525874681822009-10-04T18:27:08.548+00:002009-10-04T18:27:08.548+00:00I don’t think it’s impossible. In fact, these days...I don’t think it’s impossible. In fact, these days you can do it on a smaller budget than ever. How? This would be an absolutely ideal candidate for a cloud service like Amazon AWS or any of the other cloud providers.<br /><br />The whole advantage of a cloud service is that it has a ridiculous level of scalability, so is able to handle a ridiculous load, and they only charge you for its use, so you don’t have to hire a rack of servers year-round for a one day spike.<br /><br />Sure, they’d need someone to code up a ticketing system that’d run on EC2, but they can’t be so short of money that they couldn’t tender a company to do it, either for cash, in exchange for advertising, or a combination of both.<br /><br />It looks like they managed to sort out the DNS side of things better this time by going with dnsmadeeasy, but the actual Glasto website itself still resolves to a single IP (83.138.56.40 - seems to belong to qmediastream.com), Now there’s a good idea, don’t bother to load-balance the initial entry point, that’s bound to work well and not fall over! Oh dear.<br /><br />Maybe they’ll manage to get it sorted next year, but somehow I doubt it.ManxStefhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17467264695876737400noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1930103.post-7080445806475993712009-10-04T11:44:17.839+00:002009-10-04T11:44:17.839+00:00It's pretty much impossible. The internet real...It's pretty much impossible. The internet really isn't designed to support that many people hitting one site. <br /><br />I'm sure there's a very expensive way to do it, but is it worth it for 6 hours a year?Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11807517683843894996noreply@blogger.com