Rejection of $700B Wall Street bailout slows house server to a crawl

As the House of Representative narrowly rejected the $700 billion Wall Street bailout bill on Monday, another kind of carnage occurred amid the ensuing stock market plunges around the world; millions of visitors seeking pertinent information slowed the 10 servers running the House's official website to a crawl. A spokesman for these servers noted that technicians will be working through the night to handle the massive increase in traffic. Indeed, some other sites that monitor U.S. legislation, such as GovTrack.us, have taken such a beating that they were shut down temporarily. Other sites, such as those for the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal, also saw traffic surge immediately following the rejection of the bailout bill.

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