I think it's supposed to be a dynamic solution. ie. They have a standard capacity for 1 million transactions a minute, and when demand exceeds that, Amazon scales up to 2 million transactions a minute. Then when demand dies down, it reverts back to the 1 million standard capacity.
Then I can complain MS for me getting a winning screen and Amazon crashing and resulting in not getting the deal
Actually, you don't have a winning screen based on that screenshot.
The "we have a winner" refers to the X-Box 360 deal winning the vote....not you "winning" a system. (That screen has been up for everyone since Wednesday). You would have a case if you were given a reference number.
)Personally, I think all the bad happened because you're still using Internet Explorer.
Really... I've been reading on several forums how Amazon sucks. They may have been there the moment the sale started but so were many other people. As if all that prevented them from getting one was Amazon's servers not being able to handle tens(hundreds?) of thousands of people converging in on their servers at the same time.
Not necessarily. The problem is many people never got to see the new screen and click on "Get this deal" because the page simply would not load. Many thousands of people were constantly reloading the page and Amazon's servers could not handle the load (it's a case of either they knew the demand would be huge and didn't do anything about it or they completely underestimated the demand... it's more likely the latter, but you never know). In the end it all just came down to blind luck that the servers would respond to your requests.
