Demand for “best job in the world” crashes website

This news piece from Reuters highlights the importance of having a website that can keep pace with your visitors.

The chance to be the caretaker of a tiny tropical island in Australia has sparked so much interest around the world that a rush of applications crashed the website advertising the post.

The job, which offers a salary of $105,000 to spend six months on the Great Barrier Reef island of Hamilton, has been inundated with hundreds of thousands of prospective candidates.

An official from the state of Queensland, which is offering the position, said the job was created as an antidote to the global economic slump and was being advertised in 18 countries including the United States and China.

Local media said technicians had to restore the website after it could not cope with the volume of interest and crashed for several hours. Some sections are still not up and running.

Source: Reuters (Click to read the full article)

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