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A comment on Ask HN: Why hasn't Ticketmaster been killed yet?.

Re:Ask HN: Why hasn't Ticketmaster been killed yet? by mindcrime on Saturday January 29, 2011 @10:37PM (#2157282)
There's a pretty good article here[1] that explains a lot about how Ticketmaster got where they are, and how hard it is to compete against them.

[1]: http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/11/mf_ticketmaster/

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Re:Ask HN: Why hasn't Ticketmaster been killed yet? by d_r on Sunday January 30, 2011 @04:32AM (#2157756)
“A large-scale concert on sale is, in essence, a denial-of-service attack.” And unfortunately, on July 24, service was denied.

Fascinating. It seems like quite a few of the would-be-competitors, even given the chance to compete, end up failing on the technical side of things (can't deal with thousands of concurrent requests).

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Re:Ask HN: Why hasn't Ticketmaster been killed yet? by DennisP on Sunday January 30, 2011 @10:14AM (#2158187)
Sounds like Google App Engine would be the way to go, now that they've got their high-availability option. I've read several stories about startups on GAE handling sudden huge traffic spikes without drama.
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