Royal wedding boosts Internet traffic, crashes BBC website
30.04.11

The royal wedding resulted in a massive surge in Internet traffic around the world yesterday, and while most organizations handled the extra demand without too many problems, it did cause the BBC website's live video feed to crash.
As life on the streets of central London slowly returns to some semblance of normality following yesterday’s royal wedding, a picture is starting to emerge of the kind of impact the day’s events had on web traffic.
The UK’s BBC website, which can usually handle masses of visitors with both hands tied behind its back, found itself crumbling under the enormous weight of extra traffic to its site. Web pages took longer than usual to load, and a video feed of the wedding ceremony playing on the website crashed.
The feed was replaced with an “Error 500 – Internal Error” message telling viewers, “This might be because we are experiencing abnormal traffic to our network.” – though there was clearly no “might” about it. Interestingly, YouTube ‘s live feed, which was being supplied by the BBC, carried on working.
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