Don't get it.
3,000 applications per hour  is not a big deal. You don't need a high end server to manage that.
Must be a problem with the website design.
If the server can only server X requests concurrently, just deny access to the X+1 until you have
X-1 (Ref Queueing theory)


Regards
Shad


From: geoffrey gitagia <ggitagia@gmail.com>
To: Skunkworks Mailing List <skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke>
Sent: Thursday, August 2, 2012 1:06 PM
Subject: Re: [Skunkworks] IEBC Website not working

BTW on the FB page is a drop box folder for those short listed for the said jobs ... how hard was it to implement and emailing system then?

On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 1:00 PM, Peter Osotsi <peter.osotsi@gmail.com> wrote:
BTW,

At 3,000 job seekers per hour, how many listed by close of business? I hope not all the 42 million Kenyans I hear about. This website was probably done by an amateur!

~fish


On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 12:57 PM, Peter Osotsi <peter.osotsi@gmail.com> wrote:
I just picked this from their FB, seriously they need help, its been almost two weeks now and they have not figured out what to do, I hope they don't take their web presence for granted like they do take us - their employers!

" The IEBC website, which has been slow or unavailable, will be up and running in a few hours. We apologize to those applying for jobs online. Our systems were overwhelmed by the more than 3,000 applicants per hour."

~fish

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