Quote from gwb-trading:
There are no active DDoS attacks today targetting these sites as per the threat monitoring service I use.
They didn't anticipate how popular the sites were going to be, at least for the first day. That's the right kind of problem to have.Quote from gwb-trading:
If you can not design a website to scale to the expected number of users then you have failed completely.
I work in banking IT. If the an IT team designed a bank website that failed from inadequate capacity the day that you put online - the entire responsible team would be fired by the end of the day for creating a website that does not work.
Demonstrating yet again their eternal incompetence.Quote from Ricter:
They didn't anticipate how popular the sites were going to be...
No, it won't work. I'm sure you'll be glad to know we will be stuck with it though. Congress doesn't shut down failed programs. They simply increase the failed agency's budget on the premise it's not working because we're just not spending enough money on it yet. Rinse. Repeat......Obamacare will work.
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They didn't anticipate how popular the sites were going to be, at least for the first day. That's the right kind of problem to have.
They'll push some more hardware under the system and move on to the next problems. Rinse, repeat, and Obamacare will work.
I don't know, but if the websites were overbuilt on the taxpayer's dime we'd still have criticism, just on the flip side.Quote from gwb-trading:
Actually most of the problems seen today will not be solved by pushing more hardware. Many of the problems involve incomplete coding (e.g. - nobody exists when you want to chat) or database structural failures.
These problems need to be fixed via corrective software updates.
When you actually look at the load these websites experienced today - it can only be described as moderate. Most gaming services handle 100x the Obamacare load each day. Being able to design and scale to handle a moderate website load is a problem that has been solved thousands of times - and any involved Obamacare IT team should be ashamed of their complete failure today.
This may be a good time to mention there are plenty of load testing tools available for testing websites before you put them into production. Why didn't the Obamacare IT teams test their websites using IXIA or some other appropriate tool?