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On Sat, 20 Jan 2007 14:29:27 +0000, Mystery Flyer
wrote: wrote: The TFL website had difficulties updating due to the volume of hits or the amount of changes being made, not sure which. Both of which would have been acceptable in 1994 at the dawn of the Internet but really arent acceptable excuses in 2007 Internet traffic is liable to grow faster than the infrastructure can cope with it, in the same way that motor vehicle traffic has proven to grow faster than the infrastructure can cope with it. |
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On Sat, 20 Jan 2007 11:26:29 -0000 someone who may be "BH Williams"
wrote this:- It's no use asking somebody like Ross how long his train is going to be delayed while he's still underneath it with his Junior Hacksaw. To which he might have replied, as a driver of my acquaintance did 'A F****** sight quicker if I didn't have to keep answering the radio' A long time ago off Norway a Royal Navy destroyer was stationary, a German shell having smashed the main steam pipe to the engines. Given that the objectives of a warship captain are for the ship to float, move and fight (in that order) this was not a happy situation. While the engineering people were desperately trying to get some boilers going and connected to the engines they stationed a seaman at the voice pipe to the bridge. The first time the bridge asked how long it would be the seaman asked the engineering people, added a bit more time and passed it on. After that the seaman didn't bother asking, he just deducted roughly the amount of time that had passed since the last time and passed that back, in an increasingly curt fashion. That wouldn't always be possible on a driver only train, especially as "safety" frowns on asking passengers to help these days. However, a spare member of staff or the guard might be able to deal with some of these enquiries. -- David Hansen, Edinburgh I will *always* explain revoked encryption keys, unless RIP prevents me http://www.opsi.gov.uk/acts/acts2000/00023--e.htm#54 |
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James Farrar wrote:
On Sat, 20 Jan 2007 14:29:27 +0000, Mystery Flyer wrote: wrote: The TFL website had difficulties updating due to the volume of hits or the amount of changes being made, not sure which. Both of which would have been acceptable in 1994 at the dawn of the Internet but really arent acceptable excuses in 2007 Internet traffic is liable to grow faster than the infrastructure can cope with it, in the same way that motor vehicle traffic has proven to grow faster than the infrastructure can cope with it. Buying hardware and bandwidth for your portal to cope with spikes in demand is a well understood aspect of the provision of Internet based services. Its an entirely different case to the whole demand growing over time beyond what the infrastructure can cope with. mysteryflyer |
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![]() "Mystery Flyer" wrote in message ... James Farrar wrote: On Sat, 20 Jan 2007 14:29:27 +0000, Mystery Flyer wrote: wrote: The TFL website had difficulties updating due to the volume of hits or the amount of changes being made, not sure which. Both of which would have been acceptable in 1994 at the dawn of the Internet but really arent acceptable excuses in 2007 Internet traffic is liable to grow faster than the infrastructure can cope with it, in the same way that motor vehicle traffic has proven to grow faster than the infrastructure can cope with it. Buying hardware and bandwidth for your portal to cope with spikes in demand is a well understood aspect of the provision of Internet based services. Its an entirely different case to the whole demand growing over time beyond what the infrastructure can cope with. Look moron, if the severity of the storm had been known of in advance (I don't think God works for any TOC...) they would have made provision... Start using your remaining brain cell rather than showing the world how many dead one you have. |
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:Jerry: wrote:
"Mystery Flyer" wrote in message ... James Farrar wrote: On Sat, 20 Jan 2007 14:29:27 +0000, Mystery Flyer wrote: wrote: The TFL website had difficulties updating due to the volume of hits or the amount of changes being made, not sure which. Both of which would have been acceptable in 1994 at the dawn of the Internet but really arent acceptable excuses in 2007 Internet traffic is liable to grow faster than the infrastructure can cope with it, in the same way that motor vehicle traffic has proven to grow faster than the infrastructure can cope with it. Buying hardware and bandwidth for your portal to cope with spikes in demand is a well understood aspect of the provision of Internet based services. Its an entirely different case to the whole demand growing over time beyond what the infrastructure can cope with. Look moron, if the severity of the storm had been known of in advance (I don't think God works for any TOC...) they would have made provision... Start using your remaining brain cell rather than showing the world how many dead one you have. Thanks so much for the mindful contribution to the discussion. Are you connected to Endemol ? |
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:Jerry: wrote:
"big snip Its an entirely different case to the whole demand growing over time beyond what the infrastructure can cope with. Look moron, if the severity of the storm had been known of in advance (I don't think God works for any TOC...) they would have made provision... Start using your remaining brain cell rather than showing the world how many dead one you have. Thanks so much for the insightful contribution to the discussion. Its really refreshing to have such profound commentary. I wonder, are you connected to Endemol at all? They need strategic thinkers I understand to help with their product positioning. mysteryflyer |
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:Jerry: wrote:
Look moron, if the severity of the storm had been known of in advance (I don't think God works for any TOC...) they would have made provision... Actually the severity of the storm was fairly accurately predicted as early as last Sunday, when the BBC1 "Countryfile" long-range forecast for the week was predicting severe gale force winds for late Wednesday night into the Thursday morning rush hour (actually the arrival was a few hours delayed) with structural damage and severe disruption to transport on Thursday morning. |
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![]() :Jerry: wrote: Look moron, if the severity of the storm had been known of in advance (I don't think God works for any TOC...) they would have made provision... Aside from the fact that the severity was known in advance (Hint: its called a Weather Forecast - look it up in the dictionary) , wtf has the storm got to do with whether a website can cope with a spike in the number of hits? Did you think the webserver took one look out the window and thought "bugger this , I'm not serving any pages till this blows over"?? B2003 |
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![]() I'd like to congratulate National Rail, Transport for London, Southern Trains and the BBC for all failing to provide any kind of up-to-date travel information on station closures during the storms on Thursday. TFL Realtime travel news page (http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tfl/realtime/?mode=tube&time=now) was working at 18:00 with up-to-date information for Tube and DLR. They replaced usual graphics with text-only page, but it worked. |
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alex_t wrote:
TFL Realtime travel news page (http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tfl/realtime/?mode=tube&time=now) was working at 18:00 with up-to-date information for Tube and DLR. They replaced usual graphics with text-only page, but it worked. I was a bit disappointed by the info on the FCC website on Friday, which had lots of individual bulletins but no simple summary saying what was happening *right now*. Having to read 4 or 5 service updates and line updates is rather conffusing at the best of times. It wasn't helped by a service bulletin that hadn't been removed from earlier in the week! Colleagues at work were looking at their respective TOC sites and most had gone for the single page, plain text, pages to help cope with demand. Even the Journey Check had simplified itself for some of the day on Thursday. Overall, I think everything was done incredibly well on Thursday, given the circumstances, but Friday was a bit more of a mess as the 'clean up' took place. Jonathan |
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