[LINK] The numbers just don't add up.

[Alan Hargreaves]

On 11/08/2016 12:13 pm, Ben Elliston wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 12:01:54PM +1000, Bernard Robertson-Dunn wrote:
>
>> Let's see if they try and organise people to fill in their on-line
>> censuses alphabetically, or by state, or star sign, or medicare
>> number
>
> .. which is how it should have been done in the first place.  Why
> build a system with such a high peak capacity when you could smooth it
> out over several days (say, Queensland Monday, Victoria Tuesday, NSW
> Wednesday) and do it with less kit?


I would suggest that this is exactly the reason that you go with a cloud 
service to supply the peak rather than have to purchase and maintain the 
kit for its lifetime rather than the short time that you need it.

The issue appears to be that it was amazingly under-resourced.

Regards,
Alan Hargreaves