What Happened at Crypto Gulch
So our little launch ended with the site crashed before the sale even went live. In fact no positions were sold because Ben could not log into his own site just to turn on the ordering function.
So Ben and I put our heads together and came up with a new plan. Now if you go to https://cryptogulch.com/?ref=ModernSurvival you will see a form on that page, if you want to buy a position just fill out that form. It will be open from today until 2PM tomorrow.
Once it closes Ben will draw 20 names at random and get in touch with the winners to set up their accounts.
We will be using this system in future rounds until things settle down a bit.
Again to get on the drawing for being one of the first 20 customers just fill out this form. https://cryptogulch.com/?ref=ModernSurvival
Thanks for understanding,
Jack
Thanks for that.
I have done that. It is a good problem to have in some respects would not have thought there would be that much pent-up demand for this kind of service
Make sure you have a good CDN In front of the site. Cloudflare offers a free tier and a pay tier. I’d start there. Sounds like it may have been DoS attacked.
Everyone has a consipiricy theory! No it was not a DDOS it was hundreds of people all trying to compete for 20 spots on what I thought was a dedicated box but turned out to be a VPS according to Ben, it was simple, too many people at one time. We call that the TSP effect. It has happened before and frankly when it stops happening I will be highly worried about my future.
My fault entirely. I apologize and take responsibility.
I didn’t want to commit to a year long contract on a dedicated server for a brand new business.
I wasn’t expecting people to start hitting the site at 10 AM. I was trying to do some tweaks to make the system perform better. By 11:15 AM the site was unusable.
Anyway, I think the lottery is a better idea. I got messages from a lot of people that had to work and wouldn’t be able to participate. That isn’t fair to them and no matter what time I pick there would always be people that would miss out. This should work for everyone no matter where in the world they live (we already have a customer from Australia) or what their job is.