Tons of news sites and portals were put to the test yesterday as a result of Michael Jackson’s death. People rushed to sites to get the latest news. At our office we started seeing tweets about the TMZ.com report and immediately rushed there.
As always the usual suspects had to cut down on features just to stay alive, but overall Gigom is reporting that most web services went without a glitch.
This is a huge win for cloud computing and infrastructure as a service(IAAS) offerings. This will elevate awareness to site owners on the need to be on highly scalable systems. The only cheap way to do this is through IAAS providers like Amazon, MediaTemple, or GoGrid among other.
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