Forty-five seconds after France sealed their World Cup spot with a 3-0 win over Ukraine, the website of 75-year-old Parisian Marc Dorcel crashed.
His servers just couldn't handle the deluge of visitors who had rushed to the site as soon as the final whistle blew. Fortunately, his company were able to set up new websites, which were publicised on Twitter.
Dorcel is France's leading porn producer and he had followed in the footsteps of the Canal+ weather presenter and made an offer which he presumably thought he wouldn't have to follow up on.
If France turned the tie around, Dorcel said he would temporarily halt his website's paywall for the evening. And at full time, the French public turned up en masse.
From 101GreatGoals:
Dorcel’s VP of Media, Ghislain Faribeault, told French press:
"Seeing the score change in a positive way, we started to try and beef up our servers and prepare for scalability. We decided this operation in a bit in a hurry. But we did not expect such a result!"
Today, this image is circulating Twitter in France:
