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Eliot Rosewater

(31,109 posts) Thu Nov 28, 2019, 06:37 PM Nov 2019

Shame on COSTCO.com for not anticipating today's

traffic and allowing their site to crash.

I love Costco, most stores and corps are garbage, they are not.

But there is no excuse for this.

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Shame on COSTCO.com for not anticipating today's (Original Post) Eliot Rosewater Nov 2019 OP

How do you know it was Costco's fault? Networks across the Country have reported network... SWBTATTReg Nov 2019 #1

Could be I guess. I am getting used to what it will be like on election day Eliot Rosewater Nov 2019 #2

Yeah, I know. It's scary that things like this could be done to disrupt elections and such. And... SWBTATTReg Nov 2019 #6

It's back online. NurseJackie Nov 2019 #3

No Costco.com outage reported here.... KY_EnviroGuy Nov 2019 #4

It was offline on Thanksgiving. There's a banner message today on the site... NurseJackie Nov 2019 #5

The reason it was technically not out or not an outage is it was there but Eliot Rosewater Nov 2019 #7

SWBTATTReg

(22,100 posts)

1. How do you know it was Costco's fault? Networks across the Country have reported network...

Reply to Eliot Rosewater (Original post)

Thu Nov 28, 2019, 07:02 PM

Nov 2019

outages...not specifically localized to one company...

Eliot Rosewater

(31,109 posts)

2. Could be I guess. I am getting used to what it will be like on election day

Reply to SWBTATTReg (Reply #1)

Thu Nov 28, 2019, 07:54 PM

Nov 2019

SWBTATTReg

(22,100 posts)

6. Yeah, I know. It's scary that things like this could be done to disrupt elections and such. And...

Reply to Eliot Rosewater (Reply #2)

Fri Nov 29, 2019, 02:00 PM

Nov 2019

you would think that the government would be definitely insistent on protecting our infrastructure against such outside foreign attacks, but they certainly don't seem to be interested in protecting Americans' and their infrastructure (repugs). I'm sure that they'll say it's too expensive or some other idiotic excuse that they have used in the past.

Take care!

NurseJackie

(42,862 posts)

3. It's back online.

Reply to Eliot Rosewater (Original post)

Fri Nov 29, 2019, 09:54 AM

Nov 2019

The website is currently experiencing longer than normal response times. Please note that all Thanksgiving Day-only promotions have been extended into Friday November 29th, WHILE SUPPLIES LAST. We apologize for any inconvenience.

KY_EnviroGuy

(14,489 posts)

4. No Costco.com outage reported here....

Reply to Eliot Rosewater (Original post)

Fri Nov 29, 2019, 10:25 AM

Nov 2019

See: https://outage.report/us

Also, click on "Companies" at top of page to see heavily reported specific companies. If their servers has "crashed", it would likely be shown here. Sounds like a problem of data traffic volume overwhelming their servers but with no crash.

Perhaps one of our IT experts can weigh in and better explain. This may be just the early morning Black Friday surge which should subside a little later.

KY.........

NurseJackie

(42,862 posts)

5. It was offline on Thanksgiving. There's a banner message today on the site...

Reply to KY_EnviroGuy (Reply #4)

Fri Nov 29, 2019, 10:28 AM

Nov 2019

It was offline on Thanksgiving. There's a banner message today on the site that apologizes and extends the "Thanksgiving Only" offers.

Eliot Rosewater

(31,109 posts)

7. The reason it was technically not out or not an outage is it was there but

Reply to NurseJackie (Reply #5)

Fri Nov 29, 2019, 05:55 PM

Nov 2019

it took forever and was impossible to use as you and others know.

thanks

so not crashed but might as well have been...

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