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by sswezey 4982 days ago
On a related note, seatgeek's main site seems to be having problems getting ticket prices currently
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Maybe that's b/c 80% of all websites on Earth are having problems right now?

(Exaggerating, but you get the point...)

Sorry about that, we had an explosion of traffic following the release of our SG-CLI, and it appears our auto-scaling code affected an availability zone because of a higher-than-normal write load...
AWS downtime strikes again!

<3 Rackspace