San Francisco Marathon Website Crashes Under Traffic Weight

As this blog post is written, the San Francisco Marathon is well under way. There are 25,000 runners this year, far more than the 3,000 that were out when I ran it in 2001.

And with that many runners brings more demand for web-based updates. Apparently more than the SF Marathon website can handle. At various times this morning, this blogger has tried to visit the site, only to get this message: Firefox can’t establish a connection to the server at http:www.thesfmarathon.com.

So I tried the RockMelt Browser, and got a similar message, then after refreshing, it – slowly – came – up.

Then it crashed again, when I clicked to another page on the site!

Love to see the final traffic numbers for the site!

Stay tuned.

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