Why Is the Site So Slow Today?

Posted Tuesday, April 21, 2009 1:12 PM

Minutes after news broke this morning that suspected "Craigslist Killer," Philip Markoff is engaged to be married and has a personal wedding web page on TheKnot.com (password protection has been added to the page!), our servers reached peak capacity. With three times the amount of normal traffic, our tech team had to request additional bandwidth just to accommodate the spike.

So please bear with us -- we've got 80% of American brides plus the national news paging through our site today!

Newsmonger?

> Check out the "Craigslist Killer" thread on our Planning and Etiquette board

> Get a local perspective on the “Craigslist Killer” story on our Boston board