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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;midas1, post: 1290896, member: 21309&quot;]&quot;&lt;Off Topic Geek Stuff&gt; A web server generally has a limit on the number of client connections that it will accept at any one time. As it approaches that limit, and if the limit is beyond the reasonable capabilities of the hardware, the connections will lag as the server struggles to keep up. Once the connection limit is reached, any further connection requests are ignored until an empty slot opens up. Managing to hit a bogged down server that&#039;s at its connection limit, at the precise moment a connection opens up, is pure luck of the draw. &quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>That&#039;s no longer an excuse.&nbsp; When I retired from the Federal Government two years ago they were moving applications to large server farms.&nbsp; Even mission critical medical applications.&nbsp; There&#039;s no technical reason why the Mint can&#039;t get a large chunk of server time for events such as the 25th anniversary sales.&nbsp; I believe the Mint may have contracted out its sales dept.&nbsp;&nbsp; If so, there no reason why the contractor can&#039;t buy a large piece of server farm time for event sales.&nbsp;&nbsp; In 2011 the 25th Anniversary sales fiasco was no different from the 2009 UHR sales fiasco.&nbsp; Outrageous.</p><p><br /></p><p>Amazon, Google and others deal with this problem on a routine basis.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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