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U.S. Visitors Flooded Immigration Website - Crash Followed - Ottawa

posted by janrinok on Sunday November 13 2016, @10:17AM   
from the oops-they've-done-it-again dept.

MrPlow writes:

Submitted via IRC for TheMightyBuzzard

As Donald Trump emerged as the winner of the American presidential campaign Tuesday night, 100,000 people in the Unites States visited Canada's immigration website, contributing to a crash.

Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada confirmed that visitors from the U.S. made up half the traffic on its website when it "started to experience difficulties" around 11 p.m. on Nov. 8. The usual proportion of visitors from the U.S. ranges from 8.8 to 11.6 per cent.

In total, 200,000 users were on the website when it crashed, compared to 17,000 users at the same time the previous week.

Source: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/canada-immigration-website-crash-presidential-election-1.3845080

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