Deja vu. A year ago, almost to the day the ANU’s student admin server isis.anu.edu.au collapsed under load and today it’s done it again. When I emailed the anu web contact last time I got some feeble excuse about unexpected load blah blah. What do these people expect on day 1 when results are available? Perhaps they think everyone will just magically take it in turns to ask the server for a page?
This wouldn’t be so funny if it wasn’t for the fact that the ANU is a leading information technology research centre boasting world class super computing facilities. I bet its a budget thing, someone in a comfy ANU office decided that the vice chancellors latest pet publicity stunt was more important than actually providing a reliable service for students.
pfft
UPDATE, D.DAY for isis – well it seems my angst was misplaced and that the downtime for isis on the weekend was probably to facilitate the provisioning of isis-express. From brickbats to bouquets as they say, the express was, well fast! It begs the question why the update was scheduled when it was but better late than never.
ooh ahh
