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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 705155, member: 66&quot;]At least some times in the past the mints site HAS dumped everyone off at noon to provide an even playing field. (because some people were signing on early to beat the rush, loading their cart with the items and then just trying to go to checkout at noon.)</p><p><br /></p><p>And yes the site most likely will slow to a crawl or crash.&nbsp; Do you want to know why?&nbsp; Because a LOT of people out there have learned the trick of having multiple windows or tabs opened on their computer, each pointed to the mint website.&nbsp; Then at noon they just start running through them refreshing all of them and doing so repeatedly until one gets in.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now think about that.&nbsp; Say there are 20,000 people out there each sitting with an average of 5 windows open.&nbsp; At noon they all refresh and the mint server gets hit with 100,000 requests for service.&nbsp; In effect the site has been hit with a DOS or Denial Of Service attack, but one done manually rather than by a virus botnet.&nbsp; The site can&#039;t handle it and most of them get dumped,&nbsp; The people immediate hit refresh and the attack on the server continues.&nbsp; So by trying to increase their chances of getting through they actually slow the site down and make it more difficult for everyone to get through.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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