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Re:Amazon Homepage is Down by AH4oFVbPT4f8 on Wednesday July 11, 2018 @08:42PM (#17511374)
Better today than Monday.

Using numbers from 2013, Amazon makes $2000 per second, down for 30 minutes = 3.6M

Edited: per hour to per second

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Re:Amazon Homepage is Down by gowld on Thursday July 12, 2018 @02:00AM (#17512487)
That's only true if people bounced of a broken homepage completely cancel their purchase, instead of waiting 10 minutes.

Most stores close overnight. They wouldn't double revenue if they opened overnight.

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Re:Amazon Homepage is Down by Waterluvian on Wednesday July 11, 2018 @08:53PM (#17511424)
Per hour? Do you mean per second?
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Re:Amazon Homepage is Down by AH4oFVbPT4f8 on Wednesday July 11, 2018 @10:04PM (#17511674)
Good catch, you're correct it's per second not per hour.
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