Originally Posted by Dionbelmont:
“Totally agree.
The whole day pass idea is skewed.
Obviously even if it sells, (which I personally don't think there is a remote chance of), it means that for 95% of the time their servers will have almost zero use, then suddenly when a big event is on they are swamped with users.
Doesn't seem to me to be the ideal for a streaming set up.”
They'd have to arrange short-term server rental at reasonable costs, to make it financially viable. But unless a lot of organizations are doing this for many different types of event, the server owners would themselves suffer large peaks and troughs in demand, so it would be expensive for Sky. A bit like creating your own Internet rush hour - and we know how inefficient rush hours are for train and bus companies!
Of course, it could also have been their sign-up and payment system that fell over so that too would need huge amounts of spare capacity to handle big events and similar considerations would apply.
Their forum thread is now up to page 141, at about 10 messages per page.
