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Trekologer

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23. The front end webservers are likely not the bottleneck

Reply to steve2470 (Reply #8)

Tue Oct 1, 2013, 07:27 PM

Oct 2013

The www.healthcare.gov website is using Akamai's content distribution network so that likely can handle the load. It also resolves to both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses, so that made me smile a bit. Anyway, without knowing the software, architecture, or network, the bottleneck is probably something like a database. That's not exactly easy or cost-effective to simply throw more more hardware at, especially to only handle opening-day load.

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poll for IT people about performance of healthcare.gov [View all] steve2470 Oct 2013 OP

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