Police.uk = fail
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The boys in blue have launched www.police.uk to much media coverage. It is supposed to map local crime figures and details.
Shame it keeps crashing, more waste of tax payers money. I wonder how much it cost to build?
Shame it keeps crashing, more waste of tax payers money. I wonder how much it cost to build?
Jackleman said:
The boys in blue have launched www.police.uk to much media coverage. It is supposed to map local crime figures and details.
Shame it keeps crashing, more waste of tax payers money. I wonder how much it cost to build?
Get real. Course it crashes on the first day as half the country logs in to check their road.Shame it keeps crashing, more waste of tax payers money. I wonder how much it cost to build?
The taxpayer can't afford to scale up the system just for the first day burst of traffic and then have it idle for the rest of the time.
Just give it a day or two to settle down.
That is the nature of government web sites. They are often searched out based on government anouncements, news stories or deadlines.
The systems should be designed to cope with expected maximum useage, not an expected average.
Two years ago the HMRC Self Assessment website crashed just before the 31 January filing deadline. You can't tell me that the government didn't expect some peak useage around that time.
The systems should be designed to cope with expected maximum useage, not an expected average.
Two years ago the HMRC Self Assessment website crashed just before the 31 January filing deadline. You can't tell me that the government didn't expect some peak useage around that time.
Eric Mc said:
That is the nature of government web sites. They are often searched out based on government anouncements, news stories or deadlines.
The systems should be designed to cope with expected maximum useage, not an expected average.
Two years ago the HMRC Self Assessment website crashed just before the 31 January filing deadline. You can't tell me that the government didn't expect some peak useage around that time.
If you have an application like SA with a specific filing date, then yes, such a system should be scaled properly to cope. Thoroughly agree with you there.The systems should be designed to cope with expected maximum useage, not an expected average.
Two years ago the HMRC Self Assessment website crashed just before the 31 January filing deadline. You can't tell me that the government didn't expect some peak useage around that time.
However this application does not need to be scaled as todays traffic will be something in the order of 100 times greater (if not more) than the traffic it will be getting this time next week.
There is simply no point in the added expense (which will run into significant sums) to have this application over spec'd from day one.
Jackleman said:
The boys in blue have launched www.police.uk to much media coverage. It is supposed to map local crime figures and details.
Shame it keeps crashing, more waste of tax payers money. I wonder how much it cost to build?
£300000 apparently, worth every penny I think. Well at least for the one page I can actually load Shame it keeps crashing, more waste of tax payers money. I wonder how much it cost to build?
I used the website without any problem about 30mins ago. When something like this hits the media, of course servers will get overloaded. The investment would have covered for normal use, not a peak for a few hours/a day when the media publicise it.
From tomorrow onwards I'm sure it will be without issue (although I haven't had any so far).
From tomorrow onwards I'm sure it will be without issue (although I haven't had any so far).
Silver993tt said:
From tomorrow onwards I'm sure it will be without issue (although I haven't had any so far).
After which there'd be the inevitable complaints of "this is costing HOW MUCH for such little traffic?!?"This situation is not remotely unique to government sites, not at all.
tinman0 said:
If you have an application like SA with a specific filing date, then yes, such a system should be scaled properly to cope. Thoroughly agree with you there.
However this application does not need to be scaled as todays traffic will be something in the order of 100 times greater (if not more) than the traffic it will be getting this time next week.
There is simply no point in the added expense (which will run into significant sums) to have this application over spec'd from day one.
It just looks so bad.However this application does not need to be scaled as todays traffic will be something in the order of 100 times greater (if not more) than the traffic it will be getting this time next week.
There is simply no point in the added expense (which will run into significant sums) to have this application over spec'd from day one.
Imagine if TV channels crashed because they were showing a popular programme.
Actually, it's added the Town and City to my Postcode so they know I exist too. I deleted the space in my postcode which caused a popup to appear asking which of three options I meant. Clicking any of the options doesn't do anything, so it looks like there's a problem with browser compatibility too. Just send the data over to google if you want pretty pictures drawing with it!
paulrockliffe said:
Imagine if you logged in, put in your Postcode and got told, "Sorry, we couldn't find a policing area that matched your search."
I know my Postcode was correct and that it exists, so the only explanation is that I'm not in a policing area. Useful to know!
I've got that message for each of the three places I've lived in England - I suspect it's just a different symptom of the site being unable to cope.I know my Postcode was correct and that it exists, so the only explanation is that I'm not in a policing area. Useful to know!
As mentioned above - it was always going to be busy when they put the launch all over the news, not sure there's a good reason they couldn't scale it up at the start and gradually scale it down once they got an idea of the average usage.
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