World Series Ticket Sales Overwhelm Servers 86
vlakkies writes "The Colorado Rockies Major League Baseball team decided to only sell tickets for the World Series games at Coors Field online. As a result of overwhelming interest, the ticket vendor Paciolan experienced a system meltdown resulting in a suspension of all ticket sales."
The old story... (Score:4, Informative)
Rockies spokesperson:
"We are as frustrated and disappointed as (fans) are," Alves said.
He said the servers were overwhelmed this morning and that officials had no idea that so many people would try the website.
Yeah, who could have seen 30,000,000 people trying to buy tickets to the championship series of the only baseball team for nearly 1000 miles in any direction? Boston fans certainly wouldn't want those tickets either.
They didn't put anything on their site for hours to let people know there had been a crash. Just a series of timeout errors.
Like, No doy (Score:2, Informative)
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Paciolan, Inc., a leading provider of online ticketing technology, has chosen IBM eServer(TM) p650 systems to increase ticket sale processing speed. Following completion of a thorough benchmark analysis, IBM has projected that Paciolan's clients will have the ability to process more than 100,000 tickets per hour.
Channel 4 (CBS) in Denver has also had this to say: The Rockies did say it was blocking some IP addresses due to suspicious or malicious activity.
100,000 tickets per hour is about 28 tickets per second. I'd imagine they got tens of thousands of hits in the first few seconds after they opened the sale.
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