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Census Servers Crumble - Under Expected Load...

posted by cmn32480 on Tuesday August 09 2016, @01:58PM   Printer-friendly
from the time-to-find-a-scapegoat dept.

Fluffeh writes:

The Census and Australian Bureau of Statistics websites have crashed on their most important day of the year [Census day for Australians], leaving Australians frustrated and unable to complete their form online. Many trying to log on to the Census and ABS sites were met with an error message on Tuesday evening saying the site could not be reached.

In a first, the census requires a full name to be filled in, though many including politicians are concerned about privacy issues. Crossbench senators including Nick Xenophon, Scott Ludlam and Sarah Hanson-Young are pledging not to comply with rules for the census will be treated like any other citizen and risk fines of $180 per day, the Australian Bureau of Statistics said on Tuesday.

Some took to Twitter to slam the ABS, with one user sarcastically saying they were "definitely technically competent enough to keep our most private data safe."

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  • (Score: 2) by bob_super on Tuesday August 09 2016, @05:04PM

    by bob_super (1357) on Tuesday August 09 2016, @05:04PM (#385848)

    If you have 10 RU in rack, you can buy Ixia or Spirent boxes which will emulate a whole lot more than 23 million simultaneous connections (plus a bunch of attacks thrown in "for teh lolz".
    If you don't want to buy, I believe both offer stress test As A Service.

    Going online with infrastructure which collapses under expected load isn't just dumb, it's incompetence.

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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by cmn32480 on Wednesday August 10 2016, @01:26AM

    by cmn32480 (443) <{cmn32480} {at} {gmail.com}> on Wednesday August 10 2016, @01:26AM (#386058) Journal

    So... um... kinda like Healthcare.gov?

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    • (Score: 2) by bob_super on Wednesday August 10 2016, @04:31PM

      by bob_super (1357) on Wednesday August 10 2016, @04:31PM (#386312)

      Yup, that incompetence from the people not providing the proper budget to implement a law they can't manage to overturn with a veto-proof majority.