FRC Blog - FIRST Choice: Take Three!

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Originally Posted by Oblarg

They "appreciate the ingenuity?" Are they serious? I would have expected (and been much more pleased with) "we condemn the lack of sportsmanship and gracious professionalism in doing so."

I think they were trying to be nice. It's been stressful for everyone, so they appear to be putting a lighter touch out.

Besides, saying "you are not showing gracious professionalism" always starts a battle on what GP is, when it is, why it is, etc. etc. etc. You are not new mentor here, you know how thing can fling themselves into a downward spiral.

Originally Posted by Cory

I don't do this professionally but in 5 minutes of browsing Amazon's webhosting services it looks like you can pay $1000-2000 plus an hourly cost (a dollar an hour or so) based on utilization. I'm willing to bet Amazon can handle a few thousand people logging in at once and FIRST only has to pay extra for a few hours of high utilization (and let's be real... "high" utilization for Amazon is probably a lot more than 3000).

Maybe there's some reason that makes it not that simple... But historically FIRST has never been able to handle heavy website traffic in a fast and reliable manner.

Bold text to highlight the point. It's never that easy. If it was that easy we would all have websites that could do 2.3 million hits per second.

Once again, these people are doing the best job they can manage. The season ends in April, that means you have May-November (7 months) to plan, design, build, implement, test and you too can be the 2015 FIRST Choice site.

Originally Posted by Kate, Collin

A team of dedicated, smart people from AndyMark, FIRST IT, and the FRC community have been working to revise the FIRST Choice site so that it’s robust for when we launch.

Thanks for the heads up, and thanks for all the work into making this work for everyone.