Can't say I've seen this before...
Mike
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From Boglev: "Just checked. They're back!"
Mike replies: Sorry, I should have said it's intermittent. I was seeing most pages but got that box when asking for D800 samples, which, after all, must be pretty demanding of bandwidth.
That's a bad sign coming from Amazon.com...
Posted by: MarkB | Thursday, 27 September 2012 at 07:38 AM
What I think makes this even more remarkable is that Dpreview's owner, Amazon, is one the key players in hosting/storage. You'd think they know a thing or two about traffic management...
Posted by: Richard | Thursday, 27 September 2012 at 07:48 AM
Darn those 36 megapixels!
Posted by: Joe in L.A. | Thursday, 27 September 2012 at 08:19 AM
I thought you're talking about the refs, because THEY ARE BACK!
Posted by: Joon | Thursday, 27 September 2012 at 08:55 AM
A relevant story in Sunday's (Sept. 23, 2012) New York Times on server farm capacity, demand and energy consumption: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/23/technology/data-centers-waste-vast-amounts-of-energy-belying-industry-image.html
Posted by: Carl Blesch | Thursday, 27 September 2012 at 10:17 AM
This is not an infrequent occurrence for me, but usually hitting the 'refresh' button results in an immediate connection.
Posted by: GKFroehlich | Thursday, 27 September 2012 at 10:21 AM
This should be looked at as "dpreview have finally figured out their site is overloaded and now give a correct error message after a timeout rather than hanging and never loading the page".
They've been very slow for some time.
Posted by: Kevin Purcell | Thursday, 27 September 2012 at 12:39 PM
What Richard said: "What I think makes this even more remarkable is that Dpreview's owner, Amazon, is one the key players in hosting/storage."
Yep, they are *huge*. You can imagine what they need just for their own hosting, and they got so good at it that they started leasing it out, big style.
Actually, the success that company has is almost frightening. That said, I don't want them to fail until I get my Kindle Paperwhite! (And until I've read all the books I need to in this lifetime.)
Posted by: Eolake Stobblehouse | Thursday, 27 September 2012 at 01:44 PM
Too many cat pictures and too many internet experts opining endlessly...
Posted by: Jimbo | Thursday, 27 September 2012 at 11:02 PM