When one of the leaders in Cloud computing can’t cope with the number of people accessing their website, what hope for the rest?

Let me be the first to say it works fine here.

In now, was getting the “We’re sorry” an error occurred. Others in the office were getting the same. Was just really surprised at Amazon not being accessible.

Spoke too soon, down again (for me)!

Let me be the second to say it works fine here.

We had a look and there is nothing worth having.

Seems to be intermittent on my connection. Feels like the Commonwealth games all over again :).

Was it just me, or was STW down momentarily earlier this morning?

I’ve never had any problems getting on here, and I’ve been refreshing a lot! Sadly my internet isn’t fast enough to get the BF XBox360 deal I was after – clicked to buy as soon as it came up and still only made it onto the waitlist (and never made it off).

Was it just me, or was STW down momentarily earlier this morning?

Yeah, I was just about to tweet them and it came back up. Thought I’d missed some black Friday mega deal. Maybe it’s hosted on the same server as Amazon?

Amazon is up for me…

It’s all rubbish today, TBH.

Actually, it was all rubbish all week, but some of it was rubbish I thought I wanted.

Was it just me, or was STW down momentarily earlier this morning?

That’ll be the rush for the Black Friday bargains in the STW Store:

Ah, if you bought yesterday, use your rights under the Distance Selling Regs to initiate a return and rebuy it at todays prices.

As for getting into the Amazon, use a floating plane???

[video]http://vimeo.com/46951183[/video]

John Lewis and Currys both deliberately limiting access to their sites (using software to put you in a queue). I’m guessing this is to make sure their servers don’t go down and also to heighten the anticipation of the [not very] special deals they’re doing.
Would not surprise me if Amazon were doing something similar.
I had a quick look this morning and there wasn’t anything I wanted coming up on the flash sales.

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