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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kirispupis, post: 7976673, member: 118780&quot;]I had a number of back-and-forth emails with them this morning. It looks like their service went offline, then their web server started returning 500&#039;s. The first failure they attributed to a hardware failure.</p><p><br /></p><p>Typically 500&#039;s are returned when a service dependency is down and their service has no logic to recover. Likely the hardware failure took down the dependency or connection to the dependency, and when they brought the hardware back up, the dependency was not.</p><p><br /></p><p>Initially they sent a mail stating they would resume bidding in 5 minutes, but then moved it to next Friday. My assumption is they didn&#039;t want to lose face by continuously providing updates, so they just gave themselves ample time to ensure their service and all of its dependencies are up.</p><p><br /></p><p>Admittedly, I&#039;m not familiar with their infrastructure, but I&#039;m a bit surprised that their architecture isn&#039;t using redundancy. The nature of their operations lends itself very well to cloud scaling. They know the exact times of their auctions and can simply scale up before, then scale down afterwards. It certainly seems like they&#039;re not cloud-based, which doesn&#039;t make much sense today.</p><p><br /></p><p>I must admit I&#039;m a bit bummed. I did win one of my targets before the issue occurred, and their mail made it clear I still won that one. However, I have another major target later, and I&#039;m worried that the extra time will allow bids to go higher than my budget.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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