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mbta.com is like a very soft pillow right now
By adamg on Tue, 02/01/2011 - 3:57pm
Yes, it's down again. Too many people trying to look at alerts. MassDOT is posting T alerts on a separate page.
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Fold like a cheap suitcase
Looking forward to MBTA IT police making an arrest here.
MBTA.com alert
Packet bussing has been instituted between Level3 and SprintLink networks due to switch problem. Expect latencies between 15-25 minutes.
Maybe the System Bus
Caught Fire?
Again?
This is seriously embarrassing now. With all the people online at home and work and the explosion of mobile internet on smartphones clearly means more users accessing the site. Throw in bad weather and now you have a site being put to the test. The problem is that we have had this test a few times now and each time failed.
Everyone will tell you that the T alerts don't work, and now people flood the site praying for info to be available and its down.
This really needs to be fixed!
it's the mobile users causing the problems...
The slower the connection between the server and client, the more simultaneous connections the server has to handle. Cell connections are horribly slow, particularly when atmospheric connections aren't ideal and there are a lot of users (like there would be at a commuter line platform!)
There's very little difference between a thousand people clicking "refresh" every 10 seconds, and a distributed denial of service attack.
Mobile is the wave of the future
Mobile is the wave of the future, I would not say its the mobile users, it is the site, under the management of the MBTA which failed to anticipate the demand. Build it and they will come.
Those poor hamsters
Is the MBTA running the site on a VAX server or something?!