Instapundit » Blog Archive » TRAIN WRECK: ObamaCare Website Going Down Over The Weekend To “Fix Glitches.” Related: Analysis…: "He said because so much traffic was going back and forth between the users’ computers and the server hosting the government website, it was as if the system was attacking itself.
Hancock described the situation as similar to what happens when hackers conduct a distributed denial of service, or DDOS, attack on a website: they get large numbers of computers to simultaneously request information from the server that runs a website, overwhelming it and causing it to crash or otherwise stumble. “The site basically DDOS’d itself,” he said.
Kind of a metaphor for the whole Obama administration, really.
Posted by Glenn Reynolds at 11:15 pm"
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