Election Canada: liberals 1 – websites 0

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Author: JT Smith

Newsforge reader garym writes: “This may be a pre-Christmas wake-up call to all web-publishers: As the results poured in, the election taxed the lesser of Canada’s election websites to their critical limit. At the height of the ballot counting, between 10 p.m. and 10:30 p.m., most Internet sites posting election results experienced major problems. In the heat of superstardom is a very bad time to discover your server can’t cut it. So goes the sub-text in this story in the Globe and Mail about Canada’s online election woes.”