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Glasto Denial of Service Attack

Looks like the annual “lets hype Glastonbury until Wayahead Box Office’s servers explode” ritual is well underway, what with the White Strips confirmed as Friday night headliners, along with non so subtle hints about Coldplay for the Saturday night.

Despite what Mr Eavis might say, Wayahead (the chaps who will actually sell you the ticket once you get through the first hurdle from www.aloud.com) are still running Win2k, so it all should make for a fun Sunday…

Update (03-April-2005, 11:30am): I stand corrected. Things seemed to be running remarkably smoothly today, and tickets appear to be almost all sold out just 2 1/2 hours after going on sale… Still no sign of my confirmation emails though (“Your reference number will be emailed to you along with confirmation of your order. Please allow at least 4 hours for this to be delivered.”) Hmm. Wonder why there’s such a delay, you don’t think someone is checking all 112,000 transactions manually?

4 thoughts on “Glasto Denial of Service Attack”

  1. Although a pleased holder of tickets, the smug declarations of Easvis and Aloud make me feel slightly unwell. I think it was all better than last year, however it certainly wasn’t perfect – the phone system seemed completely inaccessible, and aloud.com did not work perfectly: When I was trying to buy on behalf of someone else I got to the point of entering name, address, card details etc, but the site wouldn’t take the order – this occurred three or four times before I gave up and decided to catch the end of the Hollyoaks omnibus instead.

  2. I noticed over the weekend that the old bar of soap has french fried…

  3. Gone upstairs to sit along side (maybe in a queue to see the Doctor??) the Big Bass Drum.

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