Crime in your area

[Mich the Tester]

Beeb News In a message on the microblogging website Twitter, the Home Office said: "Hugely popular streetlevel crime maps getting 75,000 hits per minute so you might experience delays. Keep trying."

Yes, now I can´t help feeling that if the problem is too many users at a time then the final part of that sentence is rather asking for trouble.

[Doggy Styles]

Yes, now I can´t help feeling that if the problem is too many users at a time then the final part of that sentence is rather asking for trouble.

[Bunk]

It does seem a bit like they organised a DDOS attack on their own site

[MarillionFan]

Right. JUst got back, turned out someone had unplugged the router.

Should be working now. Enjoy.

[d000hg]

So they should have seen it coming and either scaled for it or designed it to cope or had the sense to trickle the media message instead of sending a press release to the Beeb.

This has happened before with these public sector web sites so it is no secret it was going to happen. They are idiots. But since they are a marketing firm, not IT, it is not surprising they fukced up.

It happens with virtually every site that gets mentioned on live TV or radio, it's not good engineering to spec the servers to cope with 1 million users if that only happens once, it would cost a load more.
Keeping it less public would have been the only realistic option but then as soon as the media find it they might go ahead anyway.

[Spacecadet]

It happens with virtually every site that gets mentioned on live TV or radio, it's not good engineering to spec the servers to cope with 1 million users if that only happens once, it would cost a load more.

Since it happens every time a site like this does the news rounds would it not be prudent, especially for an organisation as large as the police/home office to start off with a lot of capacity and then remove redundant servers as the usage drops.
Those servers can be then re-used for other projects, thus negating the hardware cost.

[d000hg]

It's working smoothly today for me. 1 day of being broken is hardly a big deal.

Speaking of which, for my postcode:

• All crime and ASB 117
• Burglary 9
• Anti-social behaviour 0
• Robbery 2
• Vehicle crime 4
• Violent crime 26
• Other crime 76

That's the middle-class place we moved to. Eeek.

[xoggoth]

My van incident is there! I'm famous!

[MarillionFan]

3 murders near me last month.

I don't remember doing three.

[Doggy Styles]

Only one in my village. More crimes in the next village, but that's to be expected with pikies on their doorstep.

They've had an "Other crime" in School Lane. I wonder what the crime was?