The American Red Cross site is overloaded right now

[xthread]

The American Red Cross website is presently overloaded and not serving documents very well.

In some sense, I suppose that's a good thing.
But its not.
Not even remotely.

Comments

[helix90.livejournal.com]

I guess I should go talk to the sales and marketing folks about donations again.

I mean, we do make a load balancer so that sites like that can stay up in the event of a load spike or natural disaster.

*sigh*

This is not a good thing (tm)

[xthread.livejournal.com]

I'm thinking similar thoughts.

[japlady.livejournal.com]

your right the base site doesn't seem to be loading, however if you jump straight to the credit card donation page that seems to be ok
https://www.redcross.org/donate/donation-form.asp

[xthread.livejournal.com]

Its a crap shoot. Sometime the donation site loads, sometimes it doesn't.

[cat-herder.livejournal.com]

If you mail them a check they will be just as happy.