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steve2470

(37,457 posts)
Tue Oct 1, 2013, 04:35 PM Oct 2013

poll for IT people about performance of healthcare.gov [View all]

Being a computer nerd, I get into this stuff


6 votes, 0 passes | Time left: Unlimited
Healthcare.gov is performing as I expected
3 (50%)
Healthcare.gov is performing better than I expected
1 (17%)
Healthcare.gov is performing worse than I expected
2 (33%)
Other (see my post)
0 (0%)
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bump nt steve2470 Oct 2013 #1
humpty bump nt steve2470 Oct 2013 #10
last bump nt steve2470 Oct 2013 #24
The NY State site RoccoR5955 Oct 2013 #2
2M logins, amazing..... I'm sure the main healthcare.gov site is even more swamped nt steve2470 Oct 2013 #5
If I were the program manager .. I would have had a phased roll out ... srican69 Oct 2013 #3
is load balancing expensive ? I have been assured that it is not difficult to implement nt steve2470 Oct 2013 #4
what do you when all your servers are under full throttle? .... load balancing only applies srican69 Oct 2013 #6
ah ok, so they need to add a lot more servers, correct ? nt steve2470 Oct 2013 #8
Probably not Ohio Joe Oct 2013 #13
thank you for your informative input ! nt steve2470 Oct 2013 #14
To get an idea of how well it actually is going... Ohio Joe Oct 2013 #15
I'm glad we have your professional perspective here steve2470 Oct 2013 #18
They should have used Microsoft's Azure VM servers TheGunslinger Oct 2013 #22
The front end webservers are likely not the bottleneck Trekologer Oct 2013 #23
"load balancing only applies when you have spare capacity."... No Ohio Joe Oct 2013 #12
You kidding? I thought it would be crashing every which way today. Xyzse Oct 2013 #7
I can't say I'm at all surprised. denverbill Oct 2013 #9
I think that overall, I called it pretty close yesterday... Ohio Joe Oct 2013 #11
Despite the problems I'm having, personally, something *did* impress me very much... Roland99 Oct 2013 #16
yea I thought that was smart also nt steve2470 Oct 2013 #17
Other ... I have healthcare from my employer and don't need to be hitting that site MH1 Oct 2013 #19
No worse than rollouts for any major game or MMO.. SomethingFishy Oct 2013 #20
the NSA is no doubt laughing their asses off Enrique Oct 2013 #21
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