Excessive demand shuts down Microsoft's new Photosynth site
Seattle PI | at | by Mike
Microsoft's new Photosynth site was down for several hours Thursday as a result of excessive demand for the online photo service, the company said.
Traffic "exceeded even our most optimistic expectations" and forced the company to take the site offline, the Photosynth team wrote in an online post. The site was down for much of the morning and afternoon, before being restored to partial functionality around 3:30 p.m.
"Getting ready for the launch, we did massive amounts of performance testing, built capacity model after capacity model, and yet with all of that, you threw so much traffic our way that we need to add more capacity," the team wrote in the online post.