Come on. For a commercial site, they should always over compensate. Should be able to handle large numbers on average and maximums up to, say, 10000 (or even 20000 to be safe). And you call this 'not down completely'? I couldn't even get to the MarketPlace or front page since 13:00 MST (about 8 or 9 hours ago). Ping worked, but even five minutes of spinning and no pages. Darn... my website could probably handle a hundred concurrent users and I'm a nobody on a single server (PIII yet). These guys must rake in $5000 (or ten times that) every day! Line the wallet, but dare not upgrade the service. Shameful!

C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot. C++ makes it harder, but when you do, you blow your whole leg off.

 -- Bjarne Stroustrup

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