Another website, another day
December 17, 2008 by sankarshan · Leave a Comment
I just read a piece about 5000 DDA flats being allotted through lottery and recalled a snippet of conversation that I had yesterday.
It turns out that the DDA website is close to being a piece of useless web_real_estate. The current problems include
- every time there is a draw of lots for allotment, the website cannot handle high traffic and inevitably goes down
- since the server cannot handle load it is difficult to fathom whether the application form has been scrutinized. It turns out that IIS throws up some message about being unable to handle the load
- the website actually does not do anything more than what can be done via a simple set of CGI scripts that query a database
Can the powers_that_be take note of this ?
sankarshan blogs about stuff that interests him and sometimes the same things interest others too. All that is just an excuse by him to start a conversation
