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In response to "NY health exchange site is down do to overwhelming interest. I'll try again later in the week. -- nm" by Krusty

Which is a nice way of saying "we didn't build the site properly". -- nm

Posted by Ender Oct 1 '13, 09:57

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Not necessarily. Sure, they could have deployed more servers for the initial rush. But will those be needed after the first week? - ty97 Oct 1, 10:09 8
- This is exactly the point of cloud computing; servers aren't physical hardware, they are virtual machines that can be started and stopped on a whim. - Beryllium Oct 1, 10:10 7
  - Related/possible dumb question: would there be privacy concerns with the gov't using servers in the cloud to manage personal data? -- nm - Roger More Oct 1, 10:20 4
    - No. -- (link) - Amazon AWS si Oct 1, 10:30 2
      - Thanks. (So there are privacy concerns, but they can be managed by Amazon and presumably other cloud providers) -- nm - Roger More Oct 1, 10:38 1
        
        Yes. -- nm - Beryllium Oct 1, 10:39
    - no. -- nm - NSA Oct 1, 10:22
  - Right, if you have to physically buy extra servers to handle a spike then you're not building it right. -- nm - Ender Oct 1, 10:11 1
    - And there's something to be said about having those physical servers - but if your architecture is done properly, physical and virtual work in tandem -- nm - Beryllium Oct 1, 10:13
Well, in their defense, it's not like this load is sustainable. Once the initial rush dies down volumes will be much lower - decline Oct 1, 10:02 1
- healthcare is not web scale. they should have used mongo. -- nm - Beryllium Oct 1, 10:09
Pretty much. :-) - Krusty Oct 1, 10:00

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