Results Day ?

DGRulz

nizo888 wrote: »

Just got a mail from DCU:

"Dear Colleages,

Please be aware that we are experiencing problems with our main web server.
We are working hard to restore service as soon as possible,
Kind regards,

xxx xxxx "

*head desk

bingobarry

Moody_mona wrote: »

Not a final year student then?

I wouldn't bother, he's just lookin for a rise

Tusky

Moody_mona wrote: »

Not a final year student then?

m.a student, so I suppose it is my final year yeah.

bingobarry wrote: »

I wouldn't bother, he's just lookin for a rise

Certainly not looking for a rise. The reason the website has crashed is because everyone is furiously refreshing at the same time.

Moody_mona

Tusky wrote: »

m.a student, so I suppose it is my final year yeah.

Delighted for you - I won't be able to apply for my M.A. until I get results though so I will continue to refresh furiously.

ION08

Last semester they were posted around 10am, but then most students would have been in lectures instead of abusing the F5 button which is no doubt further delaying the results

Wolfe Tone

How hard is it to have servers that dont crash all the bloody time? Last year they went down in September, at Christmas and coming up to the summer exams, bloody joke.

Pygmalion

ION08 wrote: »

Last semester they were posted around 10am, but then most students would have been in lectures instead of abusing the F5 button which is no doubt further delaying the results

I don't think anyone went to lectures that day tbf.

nizo888

Tusky wrote: »

The reason the website has crashed is because everyone is furiously refreshing at the same time.

Or someone has got a lend of Micheal Healy-Rae's F5 woodpecker...

mickoneill30

Tusky wrote: »

Certainly not looking for a rise. The reason the website has crashed is because everyone is furiously refreshing at the same time.

It's the same every semester. You would think they might prepare for it by doing simple stuff like staggering dates for results or even emailing the results out during the night so everybody wouldn't be hitting that F5 constantly. People would still be logging on to portal but at least there'd be none of the constant F5s.

Ah well, I've been in DCU for a few semesters. I'm sure in January 2012 people will be posting in this thread asking when the results are out and that the servers are slow

wattlendaub

Wolfe Tone wrote: »

How hard is it to have servers that dont crash all the bloody time? Last year they went down in September, at Christmas and coming up to the summer exams, bloody joke.

Under almost any other circumstances, this scenario would have resulted in someone being disciplined or fired; at the very least a lesson would have been learned.

Alas, year after year, we are faced with the same situation. Says a lot about DCU's ISS.

*mashes f5 repeatedly*

Wolfe Tone

I knew I should have stayed in bed

Pygmalion

wattlendaub wrote: »

Under almost any other circumstances, this scenario would have resulted in someone being disciplined or fired; at the very least a lesson would have been learned.

Alas, year after year, we are faced with the same situation. Says a lot about DCU's ISS.

*mashes f5 repeatedly*

Disciplined or fired for what exactly?

It's not ISS's fault that thousands of people are constantly F5'ing a web page.
Are the employees supposed to make new servers appear out of thin air?

OctavarIan

wattlendaub wrote: »

Under almost any other circumstances, this scenario would have resulted in someone being disciplined or fired;

Seriously? Fire the IT guys whenever there's a hardware issue?

Wolfe Tone

Why dont they buy some new servers? The site isnt reliable, it goes down when you need it, and when you are in a course like me where access to databases through the dcu site is a must you are rightly fcuked

manlad

Pygmalion wrote: »

Disciplined or fired for what exactly?

It's not ISS's fault that thousands of people are constantly F5'ing a web page.
Are the employees supposed to make new servers appear out of thin air?

Cloud Computing

dizzywizlw

OctavarIan wrote: »

Seriously? Fire the IT guys whenever there's a hardware issue?

fire the IT guys for failing to notice a pattern between hardware issues and results and adjusting their practices accordingly.


It's their job to ensure that this cack does not happen and it has consistently in the 3 years that I've been here.

Pygmalion

dizzywizlw wrote: »

fire the IT guys for failing to notice a pattern between hardware issues and results and adjusting their practices accordingly.


It's their job to ensure that this cack does not happen and it has consistently in the 3 years that I've been here.

Yes, they should notice a pattern, and then what?
Make expensive equipment appear out of thin air?

manlad

Pygmalion wrote: »

Yes, they should notice a pattern, and then what?
Make expensive equipment appear out of thin air?

Yes cloud computing

Pygmalion

manlad wrote: »

Yes cloud computing

As well as the fact that they'd have to host their entire student database elsewhere (or create a separate account for everyone), and have no control over the situation if anything does go wrong, this would be justified for the sake of what, the 2 days a year it's needed?

dizzywizlw

Pygmalion wrote: »

Yes, they should notice a pattern, and then what?
Make expensive equipment appear out of thin air?

I said adjust their practices, stagger results maybe, give certain times and passcodes to different schools.

Pygmalion

dizzywizlw wrote: »

I said adjust their practices, stagger results maybe, give certain times and passcodes to different schools.

I guess, but I imagine if they did that you'd have even more complaints by whoever doesn't get their results straight away.

bingobarry

did they try turning it off and on again? gob****es

Grudaire

Lads,

In fairness the deadline is still 2.5 hours away :pac:

Good Luck everyone

SparkyTech

What difference does an hour or two make? The results are still going to be the same at 9am or 9pm...and its not like those applying for a masters need to apply for their course the very next day!

manlad

Pygmalion wrote: »

As well as the fact that they'd have to host their entire student database elsewhere (or create a separate account for everyone), and have no control over the situation if anything does go wrong, this would be justified for the sake of what, the 2 days a year it's needed?

The portal page ultimately is a separate account for everyone. I think it would be worth the extra cash, at least extra servers would be available when required. They probably already spent a lot of money repairing servers during the year. They crashed twice near the end of the semester.

FatherLen

Cliste wrote: »

Lads,

In fairness the deadline is still 2.5 hours away :pac:

Good Luck everyone

really?
where does it say 3?
i know they are usually 3 but i couldnt find that deadline anywhere????

ironictoaster

SU on facebook said 3pm.

dizzywizlw

SparkyTech wrote: »

What difference does an hour or two make? The results are still going to be the same at 9am or 9pm...and its not like those applying for a masters need to apply for their course the very next day!

I do.

Grudaire

ironictoaster wrote: »

SU on facebook said 3pm.

Phew, in hindsight I haven't a clue why I said 3

Daysha