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Valid point with the window shopping comment. A huge mistake on the part of the administration though. The site was apparently flooded with visitors and you ha
by dr_ 13y ago
Valid point with the window shopping comment.
A huge mistake on the part of the administration though. The site was apparently flooded with visitors and you have to wonder how many of those visitors were people who already had decent coverage, privately or through their employer, but were just curious to check it out because they had heard so much about it. I know I was one of those people.
- hga 13y agoErrr, as I read things, bypassing registration would have run up against the 1,100 simultaneous users limit ... rather hard. Of course that was presumably increased over time, it's not like they were able to do much performance tuning until those first end to end tests were conducted by CMS a week or two before launch.
- grey-area 13y agoAn 1100 user limit is absurd for a website this scale, and is likely predicated on serving content to logged in users, not anonymous readers. With some simple caching they could serve hundreds of thousands easily with very basic tech if they didn't require login. The biggest problem, from a usability and a technical perspective, is the hiding of the information till you have signed up and given details. Apparently this constraint was added at the last minute, I wonder if insurance companies insisted on it?