This morning's problems with the new 'My Schools' website is not the government's fault, according to IT experts at the Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Eekonomy. A combination of too many users, and users pressing too hard on the links, is causing the problem.
The government's 'My School' website was released this morning. This is an exceptional website, costing less than AUD $60 million to build. "We have used the best-of-the best technology, and avoided the worst-of-the-worst IT pitfalls" said Stephen Control, minister for the DBCDE. "Despite initial reports, the website has not crashed, but the pages in fact load if you are patient. Waiting twenty minutes for each partially loaded page is a small price to pay for the extremely high quality information we have there."
"I find it amusing that users would complain about the service when it is their very usage of the service that is causing the problem." explained Mr Control. "Our best technical experts are telling me that a combination of too many users, and users pressing too hard on the web site's links, is causing the slowness." he said. Mr Control went on to explain that users who continue to abuse the web site may be held under anti-terrorism laws for disrupting a federal government communication system.
"Despite the slowness problems, I think it is clear that this is a quality system. Australians can expect the same level of quality with all government systems, including the national filtering scheme" Mr Control said.
Link to the My School website: http://www.myschool.edu.au/
