Today I was all primed and excited that San Diego Comic-Con registration was going to resume today, November 22nd, 2010 after their initial failure earlier. My excitement was derailed when I found myself endlessly trying to reload the registration page so that I could get both Scott and I registered for the event. As I sat thinking about what must be happening in the bowels of Comic-Con an idea struck me square between the eyes.

If the problem is with overloading then the solution is distribution. SDCC already has a good aggregate measure of population densities based on ZIP Codes. Create a flurry of virtual web servers to handle incoming registrations for bands of ZIP Codes, such as 00000-10000, 10001-20000, so on and so forth. Then on the main Comic-Con.org page have individual links so that we can sort ourselves, thereby spreading the incoming load amongst 10 different servers instead of just hitting one. This is a solution that I think will work and would make everyone happy.

Now if someone at Comic-Con would notice this and see that it might be a solution for them…