iPhone X Preorder Server Location

[hface119]

What an incredible over-obsession. That is all.

 

[brbttyl]

Case in point, my home connection started loading store.apple.com around 12:17 AM while the server loaded it successfully at 12:09. Of course that didn't matter at all, because I had to use the damn app.
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What an incredible over-obsession. That is all.

Please tell me what you feel is a normal amount to obsess over something.

 

[BlueKhufu]

to the doubters it worked for me. My LA vpn made it in before anything else and I ordered two 256gb for nov 3, one on att one on tmobile, my non vpn just got through a few minutes ago with 2-3 weeks showing for both models. I know one result isnt scientific but it did make a difference here. MR is jacked on all my connections though.....
[doublepost=1509089351][/doublepost]to the doubters it worked for me. My LA vpn made it in before anything else and I ordered two 256gb for nov 3, one on att one on tmobile, my non vpn just got through a few minutes ago with 2-3 weeks showing for both models. I know one result isnt scientific but it did make a difference here. MR is jacked on all my connections though.....

 

[brbttyl]

to the doubters it worked for me. My LA vpn made it in before anything else and I ordered two 256gb for nov 3, one on att one on tmobile, my non vpn just got through a few minutes ago with 2-3 weeks showing for both models. I know one result isnt scientific but it did make a difference here. MR is jacked on all my connections though.....

Knew it. Cheers.
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Yeah, it was lame. I kept refreshing for 13 minutes here on the East Coast (US). I finally gave up, spoofed my IP to represent a West Coast (US) IP and the site came right up. I placed my order (which was now on backorder due to preferential treatment of West Coast buyers). Then I changed my IP back to its normal East Coast IP - and you guessed it. The site was still down saying that it would be up soon to allow orders to be placed. smh.

By 3:20am ET (20 minutes late) the site finally became available to my normal East Coast IP address.

Note to self: For future iPhone purchases, pretend you live on the West Coast (US) in order to get preferential treatment.

+1

 

[riverfreak]

Can you clarify what do you mean? VNC's got a lot of overhead, if your routed to a cluster that's not scaling traffic well, you wouldn't even get there? What is it that your trying to say? I'm a tech geek, geek out.

This is after the fact at this point, but what the heck.

I know nothing about the hosting of the retail online store, it’s load balancing architecture, or the structure of its app.

I’m merely positing that if you’re in a region that’s being handled by a “cluster” (you can geek out on that however much you want, containers, serverless microservices, whatever) that isn’t properly autoscaling, even the overhead of a VNC from a host in a different region driven off an entirely different data center and with different traffic shaping could potentially be faster.

Again, I know nothing about the topology of their service so this is all pure hand waving, which mostly passes for definitive proof in these troubled times.

 

[Starfyre]

In the end for me, the only server that had load problems was not the Apple Store.. but MacRumors forums that kept crashing as soon as preorders launched.

 

[brbttyl]

Pretty obvious to me that where you're connecting from matters tremendously in terms of when you get in.