On: 300,000 hits per second make Indian election website crash

[diego]

"Shukla said even heavy-traffic websites like Google did not get as many hits. He said NIC had budgeted for 80.64 billion hits in eight hours on the basis of 2,800 hits per second but with 3 lakh hits per second, it received 8.64 trillion hits."

This makes no sense.

8 * 3,600 * 2,800 ~= 80 million.

3 * 100,000 * 86,400 ~= 26 billion.

[randomtask → diego]

Substitute 80.64 billion for 80.64 million and 8.64 trillion for 8.64 billion and it makes sense