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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.
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U.S. Visitors Flooded Immigration Website - Crash Followed - Ottawa
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(Score: 5, Interesting) by butthurt on Sunday November 13 2016, @03:54PM
If you really think the main difference between Canada and Mexico is skin colour, there may be a place for you in the Trump administration.
Among the immigrants to Mexico, more come from the United States than from any other country. More Americans live in Mexico than in any other country outside the United States.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_to_Mexico#American [wikipedia.org]
When I made a journal entry about this story [soylentnews.org], someone commented on the software used on Canada's site, which is IIS 8.5, presumably on Windows Server 2012 R2. Mexico's site is running Apache, probably on Linux (both are behind Big IP load balancers).
http://toolbar.netcraft.com/site_report?url=http://www.cic.gc.ca [netcraft.com]
http://toolbar.netcraft.com/site_report?url=http://www.inm.gob.mx [netcraft.com]