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Hi folks, I'm helping out the Warriors Festival Committee. Just to give a heads up on the problems encountered with registration.
I'm not an IT head but the jist of the problem yesterday was that an external program that communicates info from PayPal to Warriors Website (via email) went into meltdown due to the amount of people trying to access it. There was never a problem with this before so nothing like this was anticipated. High traffic volumes were taken into account for yesterday morning and site was on a larger server for the day but the IT fellas monitoring the website said traffic volumes were "unprecedented".
A bottleneck was created and problem snowballed as each registration took place eventually crashing the website. The Data Centre forced the site to close as other websites on the same server were being affected.
The site has been rejigged to only deal with registrations for the next week or so. A floodgate system is being installed also so that if more than 20 people try to register at the same time they will be redirected to a timer page for 2 minutes and allowed back in with precedence given (similiar to Ticketmaster site). If registering today, you'll just get a confirmation email to say you're in and you're bib number will be emailed to you at a later date.
Site will be back up after 2pm today (was meant to be around 12 but the IT lads want to monitor it and are heading for lunch
- look we'll let them as they were working until after 10pm last night on the problem).
Who woulda thunk The Warriors Run would be this popular and yes a bit of a FAIL on our part but technology and Murphys Law go hand in hand, the more you want it to work, the more likely it is to let ye down.
On behalf of The Festival Committee, I'd like to thank you for your patience and when my fingernails grow back I'll get everyone a "I waited for The Warriors Website to open and all I got was this lousy badge" badge.0 -
Hi folks, I'm helping out the Warriors Festival Committee. Just to give a heads up on the problems encountered with registration.
I'm not an IT head but the jist of the problem yesterday was that an external program that communicates info from PayPal to Warriors Website (via email) went into meltdown due to the amount of people trying to access it. There was never a problem with this before so nothing like this was anticipated. High traffic volumes were taken into account for yesterday morning and site was on a larger server for the day but the IT fellas monitoring the website said traffic volumes were "unprecedented".
A bottleneck was created and problem snowballed as each registration took place eventually crashing the website. The Data Centre forced the site to close as other websites on the same server were being affected.
The site has been rejigged to only deal with registrations for the next week or so. A floodgate system is being installed also so that if more than 20 people try to register at the same time they will be redirected to a timer page for 2 minutes and allowed back in with precedence given (similiar to Ticketmaster site). If registering today, you'll just get a confirmation email to say you're in and you're bib number will be emailed to you at a later date.
Site will be back up after 2pm today (was meant to be around 12 but the IT lads want to monitor it and are heading for lunch - look we'll let them as they were working until after 10pm last night on the problem).
Who woulda thunk The Warriors Run would be this popular and yes a bit of a FAIL on our part but technology and Murphys Law go hand in hand, the more you want it to work, the more likely it is to let ye down.
On behalf of The Festival Committee, I'd like to thank you for your patience and when my fingernails grow back I'll get everyone a "I waited for The Warriors Website to open and all I got was this lousy badge" badge.
Cheers for the heads up and explanation, much appreciated. Can't wait til 2p.m!
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I'm guessing that was you who commented on the facebook page post. I'm sure you'll get registered if you are sitting around waiting on it to open.
Narp :pac:
I did like the first comment though. :P
Some lady was giving out, I already made a post and don't see the point in roaring more than I already have done.irish-stew wrote: »22 minutes!
:eek:
I have a bit more work to do.
Indeed
I hadn't been running for a few weeks. Not properly or consistently so it's nice to bang out a decent time out of the blue. I had a few too many bonbons the night before so that was my main motivation. :pac:0 -
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irish-stew wrote: »Indeed?
Your 3 minutes quicker than me!!
It's my trainers I'm telling you! :pac:
I hope no one catches me out running the next few days though. I walked into an open oven door after my run on Sunday and I nearly split my shins in half I hit them that hard. I look bet!
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irish-stew wrote: »It has, kinda off. The website/servers just appear to be unable to cope with the traffic.
Not a very good start to the event if you ask me.
I've gotten a countdown thing. 9 minutes to go! Scared stiff to refresh the page!0 -
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irish-stew wrote: »I got the email from paypal straight away.
Then a confirmation from warriors run a couple hours later. Still waiting on the bib number. They did say though anyone who got the email from paypal will get a bib number once all the registration problems were sorted.
Perfecto! Got the paypal email asap too
Happy days cheers Stew 0 -
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