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Originally Posted by Tsom467
I can't believe it's been overloaded! There are what, about 1200 teams? So at most one person from each team is trying to get in. They can't design a system that can handle 1200 requests at once? Seems ridiculous... They seem to have this capacity problem every year....
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Very few database systems can handle 1200 updates/sec. Yes it's possible, but it takes a well designed system. Would you pay an extra $1000 registration fee for a database engineer and serious hardware?
I beleive it was 2 years ago, FIRST had a license for filemaker that allowed 10 concurrent connections. Knowing they would be in trouble if they let everyone directly connect, they implemented another computer as a proxy that would only let 10 people through to the database server at a time. However, the number of connections swampped the proxy and nobody could get through to anything.
EDIT: Since you're in IT, and in the general proximity of Manchester, would you consider volunteering to help them with their capacity issues?
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If we miss out registering for our first pick, because of their server capacity problems, we'll be very upset....
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Last year, no regional filled up after the first set of registrations. You may have to worry about your second choice in a few weeks, but you should be set now.