Apple Store is down!

[bellaisa]

apple site seems to be refreshing quicker now...

 

[WytRaven]

http://www.apple.com/iphone/how-to-buy/

There's no time here people. The rumor sites made up the 1:01 am pacific time.

On the Australian site it says pre-orders 07 October. There is exactly 5:21 of 07 October remaining in Australia.

I should start counting how many times I hit refresh on the Apple Store I would easily be over 200 al ready.

 

[catalyst6]

i have to sit through an 8 hour meeting tomorrow

FFS im tired...at least take the damn sticky down

 

[gswilder]

Oh Well....

Well we know the site hasnt been down 2 hours just for fun! Guess they are having some problem with their site, or connection to ATT. My ATT is halfway working, but cant get all the way through there also.

 

[Fissure]

Wow I didn't know we had so many site admins on this board?

I already expected it to go down. It's not apple's fault MILLIONS of people from across the globe are trying to hit the site at the same time. Even the highest end web servers would stress out over the number of queries, nor does it make sense to invest in 100k etc worth of servers for a one time event.

Huh? Ever heard of virtualization? Spin up a s#itload of virtual web servers and distributed databases and be done with it. Destroy them when the flood is over. It's not like they would have to buy that many more physical servers to do that.

 

[emaja]

It's working!!!!!

Apple store? Not here yet.

Bummer.

 

[Dwalls90]

I was thinking the same thing, all the rumor sites claimed 3am Eastern time but Apple never put up a time or anything. I bet theres a few admins there right now chuckling at the millions of refreshes they're getting

Nope, I called and chatted with multiple apple sales reps that confirmed 3:01 AM, so it wasn't this arbitrary rumor made up.

 

[Creepus]

This reminds me of the South Park episode where the internet goes down. Somewhere a giant router, housed in an underground Apple facility, needs to be cycled.

 

[Tones2]

http://www.apple.com/iphone/how-to-buy/

There's no time here people. The rumor sites made up the 1:01 am pacific time.

True. The 1 hour 10 minute delay will probably be that so people give up and go to sleep, giving themselves an hour before doing so, thus releaving the stress on the servers. So I'll give it1 hr 15 minutes before giving up. .

Tony

 

[Millionin20s]

Sprint just teased me, the page loaded showing iPhones for pre order but it crashed when you tried to select one.

 

[bellaisa]

Its up!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[lilj4425]

Goooooooooo.

 

[UnitedLax342]

Got through finally on apple site!

 

[iPadPublisher]

I paid my 25 bucks for that to go away!!

Didn't know that was an option. I'd be all over that.

 

[theConvinced]

its live

 

[bdizzle]

Up!!!!

 

[millertime021]

I've got something!!!

Apple.com is up!

 

[WytRaven]

Australian Store UP!

 

[Millionin20s]

Apple let me innnnnnnnn

 

[pbrooks]

I'm in at apple! Now I'm stuck at checking w/ AT&T. :-(

 

[trfjason]

From Canada store.

 

[ntrigue]

Working!!!

 

[boshii]

I'm in!

 

[tbayrgs]

Just got through on Apple!

 

[doctapeppa]

I lied lulz...

It really is working now!!