Health Exchange Sites Crushed By Demand; Shutdown Blanks Other Gov't Sites

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Health Exchange Sites Crushed By Demand; Shutdown Blanks Other Gov't Sites

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday October 1, 2013 @09:11PM from the not-a-good-day-for-uptime dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The launch of a national health exchange site was marred by overloaded servers in several states around the country. In a White House press conference, President Obama said that by 7 a.m., there were over a million users, and he likened the capacity problems to the glitches that Apple experienced after discovering bugs in their rlease of iOS 7. 'I don't remember anybody suggesting Apple should stop selling iPhones or iPads, or threatening to shut down company if they didn't,' the president argued." Meanwhile, a number government websites went blank as a result of the shutdown, instead of simply lying dormant until personnel could return. The National Science Foundation, NASA, the FCC, and the Library of Congress are a few examples.

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Re:worst case of slashdot editing in a while? by antifoidulus · 2013-10-01 21:14 · Score: 5, Funny

Wht are you tlking about? Vowls are for chumps.

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finally! the internet can be used as intended by Anonymous Coward · 2013-10-01 21:22 · Score: 2, Funny

Fewer government mandated healthcare sites means more porn sites for natural sexual healing!
Re:The sites weren't supposed to work today by pslytely+psycho · 2013-10-01 22:10 · Score: 1, Funny

"Washington State seemed to be working well earlier today, but it is a state site"

Wow, did I really just type that?!

This Golden oil is kickin' my ass!
Dept of Redundancy Dept, I am your new boss...

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Re:ya, the IRS site is up and running by WWJohnBrowningDo · 2013-10-01 23:59 · Score: 5, Funny

Excellet news! Maybe they'll finally take out all the trash inside Capitol Hill.
Re:DDOS and Bogusity by atgaaa · 2013-10-02 00:50 · Score: 1, Funny

Any good developer would have taken into consideration "the depth of their hatred of the working poor" and built a system that could handle it.
This is just another example of the quality of government products.
Please take your inflamitory hate speach, name calling and retoric else where, if I want to hear that I can turn on the tv.
Re:DDOS and Bogusity by kajsocc · 2013-10-02 01:27 · Score: 1, Funny

Score 3? I have to wonder who actually modded up a post which, in two sentences:

(a) attributes malicious intentions to its opponents,
(b) calls them names, demonstrating the level of maturity of a small child,
(c) asserts opponents' spitefulness while simultaneously engaging in spite itself,
(d) fails to present even a single shred of evidence for any of the above.

Oh, wait. This is the internet. Carry on.