Auza.net hosted websites www.dyrdam.com and www.boholnewsdaily.com recorded user traffic several times than normal daily traffic due to the interest of many Boholanos around the world on the first automated elections on May 10, 2010
DYRD-AM Worldwide Broadcast peaked 7200 page views on May 10 2000 users online and 5000 thousand clicks on the play button of the live and recorded broadcasts. This is at least 5 times normal daily traffic.
Bohol News Daily peaked at almost 5000 page views in a 24 hour period between May 10 to 11 when it started to publish the unofficial tally of the COMELEC results based on the official website that published the precinct counts. This number of page views is 20 times higher than normal.
Most users did not notice slowdown of the sites.
This unprecended capability of Auza.Net hosted websites to survive usage spikes is proof of the company’s robust server infrastructure hosted at a US facility. When the Boholanos needed to get information about the elections, the websites did their job.