The HostGator Black Friday Sale Fiasco

[JAugusto]

The real worthwhile AND usual Hostgator Black Friday Sale, where it is possible to save 75% to 80%, was a fiasco this year.

This year, the campaign lasted for 12 minutes, during which their servers were completely overloaded, making it impossible to order anything.

Now this happened for one in tow reasons. EITHER,

1. Their main server could take the traffic spike load OR
2. They did it on purpose

Pick yours.

Either way, it was the worst and most laughable campaign I have ever seen. I mean, would you order hosting from a company that, EITHER:

1. Can’t even maintain their main site up OR
2. Lies

Pick yours.

[williamc]

The campaign is still going just fine, this seems more of a personal vendetta or slur campaign on your part. Yes they had some slashdotted type issues right after midnight, but if you had the same traffic hit your site, at one time, I am pretty sure you would have been down far longer than the matter of minutes hostgator was....

They corrected the problems in record time comparatively, showing excellant abilities in overcoming what amounted to a full scale slashdot effect.