In what is always a good news, bad news situation, BioWare today opened registration for the Star Wars: The Old Republic beta, and received overwhelming response from fans… which eventually crashed their website.
Once normal operations resume, you will eventually be able to head to this website to sign up. But as you can see now, there’s only a maintenance message from BioWare saying they estimate “the site will be back up in the next few hours.”
Signing up will involve registering on their website, filling out some basic information, and submitting to a system scan. Beta spots are limited, so if you really, really want to have a chance to try The Old Republic before it’s (still unannounced) official release, it looks like you may want to get that refresh button warmed up.