08-18-2009, 07:36 AM
Yeah, they had 40,000 concurrent connections. That's DDoS level of activity. They probably had to prove to their service provided that they actually needed more servers hence the stress testing.
However, there will probably not be 40k people trying to connect at the same time again.
However, there will probably not be 40k people trying to connect at the same time again.


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