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From: (Paul C)
Subject: Re: 1901 Census - well, that was a non-event!
Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2002 14:09:27 GMT
References: <qdBY7.39850$4x4.4663734@news2-win.server.ntlworld.com>, <614d8d34.0201020552.554fd3f9@posting.google.com>


On 2 Jan 2002 05:52:59 -0800, (m petty)
wrote:

>I'm with you there!
>
>I know previous postings have quite rightly stated that this will save
>a lot of time and effort when it is up and running.........etc etc
>etc.
>
>I'm probably being unappreciative here, but should it not be up and
>running fully today? Yes, this is the first online UK census, but
>should lessons have not been learnt when the IGI went online? Wasn't
>it obvious that HUGE numbers of people will be trying to access the
>information today? Surely it would have been common sense to 'beef up'
>the server in the early days to cope with the demand.
>

You can't economically design a site to cope with the level of demand
which will only exist in the first day or two of the sites life.

It was designed to cope with 14 hits per second - current attempts to
access the site are 10 times that level.

Common sense would be for people to wait for a few days to avoid
clogging up the system.

Let's all switch on our electrical kettles at 5 pm precisely today and
then complain when the service fails.
--
Paul
www.footballpyramid.co.uk

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