To celebrate Gandi's 10th anniversary, this hair-brained idea to give away, in ten days, 55000 domains, raise a very practical question. How, once we open the floodgates on such an operation, to maintain the highest quality of service on the site? The festive spirit could well have transformed into a nightmare for our customers if they were suddenly unable to access their management interface.
So we took the decision to host the event on a dedicated site. This was a hitherto dreamed of occasion to put ourselves into our customers' shoes, and use our hosting infrastructure for this event. We defined the rules of play: Using only the tools provided to our customers, build an architecture which was easily scalable and didn't break the bank, and to demonstrate our renowned flexibility.
