The world's largest online retail site, Amazon.com is growing and making money more than ever before. The holiday season is typically a huge selling month for the website, but this month in particular has been extremely kind to Amazon. A group of website attackers known as "anonymous" tried to take out Amazon.com recently, but failed miserably. Amazon's mainframe is so large that its virtually impossible to overflood with users. They have designed it so that there is enough extra space to handle millions and millions of shoppers at once. If the website were to go down for even a few minutes during the holiday season, Amazon could stand to lose millions of dollars. Thus, they are prepared to take on anything and will not be crashing anytime soon. Although I don't buy much at Amazon.com I know that its got my back if I ever need anything.http://money.cnn.com/2010/12/09/technology/amazon_wikileaks_attack/index.htm
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