He probably means Sledge . Brits are all the same . <| sep |> Boost is patented and the fake boost on this shoe violates that patent . Idk if that ' s what the other guy was referring to . <| sep |> Months before Census Night , I knew the website would preform poorly eventually crash . I am a senior in IT , sorry about the TECH talk , and have dealt with RHEL WebAPP Servers , which were hosted on Virtual Environments . One of my findings during the testing phase , was the number of Web site browsers clients excedded around 600 approximately the website suffered . Preformance dropped . The site preformed exactually like the Census night ' swebsite . So based on our initial testing we created a load balancing system and added 3 x frontend web and additional middleware servers . with activeactive Oracle Databases . Sure enough the response from testing and eventually the public users was similar to what a great website ! Yes , the site performance depends on web content , secuirty measures , etc . This particular website had a lot of special flashy features , short movies , moving icons , etc . However even with a basic website , the maximum user load might be 1000 users per web server . Therefore , for example if 10 million people all logging into the Census website , concurrently , this would would require you would need 10 , 000 web servers and 10 , 000 middleware servers , just to handle the task . My guess was IBM ' s system wasn ' t up to the task , and therefore it was doomed to fail on the night ! If the Gov paid me , I would have stopped the TV Radio Ads and scared the people making the decisions into allowing people to complete the Census over several weeks . Oh , the site is slow , complete tomorrow or next week , yes the information gattered whould be a little inconsistant , but no IBM Gov heads would be bowing in shame ! My point is if most Engineers knew this was going to happen , based on web site experience , why didn ' t IBM get it right ? They must have known this was going to happen . So was there an actual DOS attack or was the website preformance rubbish ? Only a review of the web site system desgin would tell . If the later , then the Census IBM Top Brass should be fired for lying to Australia ! Don ' t fire the Engineers Heads should roll !