Thursday, November 5, 2009

Redfin Launch Crashes Site

Seattle-based Redfin's launch of a website update stumbled Thursday, as traffic to the site caused a outage from roughly 6:40am until 9am, with intermittent access through the afternoon. The firm--which announced a rollout of a new update which featured significantly more photos and data on prior sales Thursday morning--said the web site is up, but that the firm is still looking to resolve the root cause of the issue. The firm said the downtime was related to both the increase in amount of data, as well as load on the site.