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I read another place that there were around 400 000 who tried to enter the system, but anyway. They implemented a "queue", where you had to manually refresh the
by calibwam 15y ago
I read another place that there were around 400 000 who tried to enter the system, but anyway. They implemented a "queue", where you had to manually refresh the browser to be able to log in. The whole thing is just crazy, the government has used above 170 million USD to create a system that don't support hits at level similar to not so popular sites. 400 000 views is a ridiculous small amount.
- flexd 15y agoThe problem is that they have fairly normal visit rates all year, and when the tax reports get sent out they have the entire population of Norway (in reality less) trying to visit the website at the same time. It wouldn't be financially beneficial to have a website that supports 2-3 million concurrent users on a permanent basis when they only see such numbers within a limited timespan. I do however think that for 170 million USD they could afford to do so, that is a ridiculous sum of money.
- dagw 15y agoI'm guessing that the bottleneck isn't the website, but pulling in records from the no doubt dozens of ancient database systems where things like tax records, student loan information, pensions and everything else is stored. And given that during normal times these databases get probably a few thousands hits a day, it's probably not worth spending money on scaling them up.