EDITOR'S NOTE

Good afternoon,

Today's lead story involves a small group of Sydney-based developers turning around a web site in under 40 hours, which within a week was hit with 5.5 million hits.

Pin a ribbon on the chests of the site's open source developers, and also the folks at Anchor Systems and Global Switch - who claim to have only suffered two minutes of downtime as visitors flooded the site.

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By Brett Winterford | August 28, 2009

Open source site turned around in under 40 hours cops huge traffic.

By Brett Winterford | August 28, 2009

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By Staff writers | August 28, 2009

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