How China's Spring Festival Travel Rush Affect Github

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Every year during Chinese tradional Spring Festival, billions passengers travel across the country(The official number is 3 billion passengers this year).

12306.cn is the website for Chinese to book tickets via Internet, the traffic is very high.

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China spring travel affects a lot of us here in the US, not just hosting services.

It's become an annual ritual in my business to hustle and get as much stuff as we can out of China before the end of January because the manufacturing sector pretty much shuts down from the outbound to the inbound travel periods.

Vendors will just ambiguously shrug and say "we're closed for New Year", they don't go to lengths to mention that it's almost a three-week span.

12306.cn is the online train ticketing system in China and this repository is only a browser plugin which can book ticket automatically for passengers.

Somehow, they linked to image resources hosted on github, causing a massive load when the first wave of CNY train tickets went on sale. So glad I'm staying home this year.

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