[scubasteve]

Interesting tweet from Palmer (https://twitter.com/PalmerLuckey/status/684772857625231360) on high load and fraud. Always interesting to see large launches not considering load/security on the web app. Out of curiosity, why is www.oculus.com not using a CDN (direct to AWS), and shop.oculus.com not using a CDN with rate control capabilities.

[cm2187]

Hope they can tell the difference between "script kiddie fraud" and normal users trying to do the payment again and again using a different machine and a different browser because they site can't handle the load...

[zeroxfe]

The load is from transaction processing, which CDNs don't help with. CDNs are typically used for cacheable content like static assets.

[scubasteve]

I agree, however you can reduce fraud load by rate limiting IPs for a start. I'm not sure if shop.oculus.com uses the same infrastructure as www.oculus.com (I'm assuming not). But if it did, caching www would help as well.

[AYBABTME]

I don't understand why product launches like that aren't done using Shopify or something alike. They're already solving the VR problem, why try to solve e-commerce at scale on top of it.

[ethbro]

Because "Occulus webpage crashes with pre-order demand!" isn't such a terrible news item to get out there?

[justinholmes]

IP maps to Facebook infrastructure.