World Series Ticket Demand Crashes Colorado Rockies' Web Servers - UPDATE
An AP newswire article, via MSNBC, reports that:
The Colorado Rockies suspended World Series ticket sales Monday after overwhelming demand crashed their computer system.More here.
“Right now we’re shutting the system down,” club spokesman Jay Alves announced outside Coors Field, drawing boos from fans. “We expect to be online at some point.”
Alves had said last week that the Rockies were prepared for any computer problems.
On Monday, there were 8.5 million attempts to connect with the computers in the first 90 minutes after sales started, he said, and only several hundred tickets had been sold before the system had to be shut down.
UPDATE: 11:19 PDT, 23 October 2007: A spokesperson for the Colorado Rockies now says the outage was due to a "cyber attack". Details here.
posted by Fergie @ 10/22/2007 01:37:00 PM
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