"We are currently experiencing unprecedented levels of traffic to the National Lottery website. Service will be resumed shortly."
Losers
Losers
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Back in Real Time
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I only spend a fiver a week on the lottery - one play on both weekly draws, including that Dream Number thing, and a Flash thing designed to resemble a scratchcard.Comment
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The online scratchcards are a complete waste of time - in fact they should take them down to save some bandwidth at times like this.
When you buy one, it decides on the server whether you've won anything, and if so how much, and embeds that info in the Flash game.
So at busy times, they could just send a plain text response saying "You lost" or "You won £2" or whatever, and thereby have extra bandwidth to serve more pages to the jackpot-frenzied punters.
The actual result for the punter would be the same, but not perhaps quite as entertaining... not that they are very entertaining
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I've never spent a penny on it...
Byeeeeeeeeee
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Bang goes my session again... another server has keeled over and is desperately attempting to restart itself
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Bye ZeityOriginally posted by zeitghost View PostI've never spent a penny on it...
Byeeeeeeeeee
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It actually has two completely different server error pages... there's one which seems to come from a server when it's just too overloaded to handle your request, and another bare-bones one which I assume is served when the entire server farm has crashed to the extent that none of them can even get a fatal error together
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Quiet again here now.
Did my counting down in binary scare everybody off?
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"Mr. T has just won £2.00!"
He won't have to sell his gold jewellery after all, then
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