Da-Chief
06-18-2008, 08:50
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Yesterday the Firefox developers released Firefox 3 (http://www.spreadfirefox.com/en-US/worldrecord/), and in the process attempted to break a Guinness World Record for most software downloaded in 24 hours. Unfortunately, their servers couldn't handle the load and buckled shortly after the effort began. According to a developer blog post (http://blog.mozilla.com/blog/2008/06/17/firefox-3-coming-soon/), they restarted the 24-hour clock from the point which they came back online. A subsequent blog post (http://developer.mozilla.org/devnews/index.php/2008/06/17/quick-note-on-firefox-3-downloads/) claims they were seeing some 14,000 downloads per minute, at 7MB per download, creating 13 Gigabits per second of download traffic.
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Yesterday the Firefox developers released Firefox 3 (http://www.spreadfirefox.com/en-US/worldrecord/), and in the process attempted to break a Guinness World Record for most software downloaded in 24 hours. Unfortunately, their servers couldn't handle the load and buckled shortly after the effort began. According to a developer blog post (http://blog.mozilla.com/blog/2008/06/17/firefox-3-coming-soon/), they restarted the 24-hour clock from the point which they came back online. A subsequent blog post (http://developer.mozilla.org/devnews/index.php/2008/06/17/quick-note-on-firefox-3-downloads/) claims they were seeing some 14,000 downloads per minute, at 7MB per download, creating 13 Gigabits per second of download traffic.
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