Comments on: EC website crash http://thejo.in/2009/05/ec-website-crash/ I'm Thejo Kote, a graduate student at the School of Information at UC Berkeley. I'm interested in technology, startups and product design and tend to write about those topics. Tue, 19 May 2009 18:04:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: Thejo http://thejo.in/2009/05/ec-website-crash/comment-page-1/#comment-120324 Thejo Tue, 19 May 2009 18:04:38 +0000 http://thejo.in/?p=212#comment-120324 The numbers are all wrong. Sad part is that they could have easily handled the load they were expecting if the people who were involved in it knew what they were doing. The numbers are all wrong. Sad part is that they could have easily handled the load they were expecting if the people who were involved in it knew what they were doing.

]]> By: Vijay Narayanan http://thejo.in/2009/05/ec-website-crash/comment-page-1/#comment-120323 Vijay Narayanan Tue, 19 May 2009 16:50:18 +0000 http://thejo.in/?p=212#comment-120323 The reporter also does not know his math. 80 billion hits in 8 hours translates to 2.8 million hits every second, and not 2800. And what does he mean by 8.64 trillion hits? Assuming 1 billion Indians were all checking election results online, they should have gone to the website more than 1000 times every hour, or roughly one hit every 3 seconds, for each Indian. And if the estimate (80.64 billion hits in 8 hours) were right, the EC has estimated for about 30+ times the number of hits Google's gets per month. Quite ambitious! I wonder how they fixed it. The reporter also does not know his math. 80 billion hits in 8 hours translates to 2.8 million hits every second, and not 2800.

And what does he mean by 8.64 trillion hits? Assuming 1 billion Indians were all checking election results online, they should have gone to the website more than 1000 times every hour, or roughly one hit every 3 seconds, for each Indian.

And if the estimate (80.64 billion hits in 8 hours) were right, the EC has estimated for about 30+ times the number of hits Google’s gets per month. Quite ambitious! I wonder how they fixed it.

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