Hello All. Well the good news is that the site didnt crash, it simply slowed wayyyyyy down for 10 minutes. Last week (October 5) it was a hardware malfunction, this week (October 12) it was simply an overload on the system from overwhelming traffic on the site. There were bids placed right through the slowdown by some, but we understand not by all who wished to. We HAVE IDENTIFIED THE PROBLEM.
I am no computer genius (that would be Richard) so I asked him to dummy it down for me. Essentially what happens is that every time someone refreshes there page or goes to another page tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands of things get refreshed. when you get over 200 people doing the same thing, it just redlined the system and slowed things down. We have identified a way to stop this from happening and we are on it 24/7 to get it remedied. I guess we tried to have too big of a night and it the system slowed too much.
Rest assured that the system did not crash, that part was fixed last week. Rest assured that we will not rest until we get this next bump in the road fixed before next weeks auction. We would like to thank all of our loyal customers for their understanding.
Todd