Perhaps they were

Posted on 9/12/2009 at 13:33 by strazzerj

"one has to ask if peak load scenarios were considered and tested? "

Often (particularly with government work), peak scenarios are considered, tested, then not acted upon.

Sometimes, site owners don't care if peak conditions cause the site to be inaccessible for short periods of time. These sorts of things are always a business decision (or government decision in this case).

Business risk or no busines risk

Posted on 9/12/2009 at 14:42 by csbdeady

Good point - business risk and the decisions that accompany such risk factors should always be taken into account. But in this case, much was made of national press releases, interviews on the BBC etc and hence it was quite likely that the site would receive lots of traffic in the first couple of days of its existence.

So I guess the question is: was the business risk (eg: bad publicity - see www.theregister.co.uk ) properly determined, understood and accepted?

Edited by csbdeady on 9/12/2009 at 06:43