FIRST Server Issues

[Jon Stratis]

Originally Posted by PayneTrain

If a reliable scaling solution is too infeasible, perhaps you register 2-3 district systems per day, then open up regionals?

The problem is the big crush of people - they need increased availability for about an hour. Set 1st district and 1st regional registration on different days (even 1 day apart) and you'll cut the number in half on each day. And it's not like those two groups really need to be registering on the same day either - district teams can't get into regionals for another two-ish months, and regional teams can't do districts at all!

[mastachyra]

Ok, here's the plan: Everyone stop trying to register so I can test out the system. As soon as I get my team registered, I'll let you know and you can all try again.

Ok, GO!

[Jimmy Nichols]

Originally Posted by mathking

Agreed. A lottery would make much more sense, be less stressful and be more fair to teams who may not have a mentor free at noon EST.

The potential problem with a lottery system might be that teams who can't afford to travel would get shut out of the only regional they can attend. Granted there are hold back spots, but those aren't always a guarantee. Though teams who still need an event would get in, it could still play havoc with school PO systems and invoicing, etc.

[Chief Hedgehog]

Well this thread caught fire pretty quickly...

[bdaroz]

Originally Posted by Chief Hedgehog

Well this thread caught fire pretty quickly...

Not as quick as the TIMS servers did.

[tylerc102]

Well, considering that I can't really move onto my next task until FIRST does something, this thread seems like a good way to spend some time.

[hionwind]

Originally Posted by bcampbell

While I understand that the server is down it would be nice if someone at HQ could send an update via twitter or something.....

If FIRST was paying attention they could respond on this thread.

[Andrew Schreiber]

Originally Posted by Jon Stratis

The problem is the big crush of people - they need increased availability for about an hour. Set 1st district and 1st regional registration on different days (even 1 day apart) and you'll cut the number in half on each day. And it's not like those two groups really need to be registering on the same day either - district teams can't get into regionals for another two-ish months, and regional teams can't do districts at all!

3k is NOT a "big crush of people"

[billbo911]

Ahhh, how misery loves company!!

Man, I'm getting steamed over this.

[MissDaisyGirl]

*reload 1st tab*
*reload 2nd tab*
*reload 3rd tab*
*reload FRC Teams Twitter*
*reload CD*
*stomach growls*

Repeat...

[Larry Lewis]

Originally Posted by pandamonium

Why couldn't they stagger registration. Week 1 event 9am Week 2 event 10am... Wouldn't this have put less stress on the system?

Neat idea. Only issue would be if you didn't get into that week 5 event you wanted and your fallback was a week 2 event. It is probably filled at this point.
But going off of that maybe you could stagger it by team timezone. So just do each time zone at noon. That way it gives preference to the local teams to get into their events but avoids as much of a rush.

[pandamonium]

I finally got to the website, but I can not get to my dashboard... Has anyone registered yet?

[snoman]

Is this what they meant by Hype Overload?

[Bruceb]

you would think they would have load numbers from past registration days to size the system from.
Time to send in the"A" team.

Get us a bigger computer fool!

[Sperkowsky]

Sorry about your thread Mark. This isn't how its supposed to work.