Unbelievable

Trying to book tickets for Take That for Anya's Christmas present so I
decide to use the NEC website rather than sit on the phone all
morning.

At 8.59am the website was fine. At 9am it crashed.

You'd think the NEC would have realised the impact selling these
tickets online would have and made sure their website was up to it.

Some techie needs a real kicking.

 

Having "been there" it's really not as simple as you might think.

A lot depends on the system they're using - not all can handle just adding
another server.
It also depends on the infrastructure, their budget and a whole lot of other
things.

Finally, sometimes you just CAN'T cater for all the people who suddenly
decide they want to use that site at that time - it's pretty much a DOS -
but not malicious.

So yes, maybe a techie does need a kicking, but I suspect there was a techie
somewhere telling his manager something had to be done and being ignored...

 

Of which I'm fully aware given the clients my company has. We;ve got
sites that are under a lot more load than that in bursts and handle it
fine.

Oh, undoubtably it will be penny pinching. Their phone lines went
down as well.

Thankfully Ticketmaster have invested in their web infrastructure
properly and were able to sell me some tickets to the Manchester gig.

 

What the ****?

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#It only takes a minute.

Or not.

 

For my wife.

 

So what's the "wifes" favourite song?

 

Anything by Robbie Williams

 

Who isn't in the regurgitated^H^Hreformed Take That[1].

Phil.

[1] Please do - I'm sure that 2 barrels-worth of buckshot would imporve
their 'songs' immensely.

 

Er, it wasn't the fact you were after Take That tickets (one of my
friends actually crewed that tour), it was the fact this thread just
appeared on Pipex's servers, dated today, a post which I hope was
actually made a good few years ago

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What?

This isn't a Pipex **** up? Take That have reformed?

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

I thought he was after tickets for their last tour...

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To be honest, I couldn't give a shit about Take That or Robbie
Williams but my wife wanted to go being a long time fan.

It just amazes me that even now people can't run ecommerce or
telephone sales setups that can cope with large volumes of people that
they _know_ are going use to the service.

 

heh, no. They really are (minus Williams) doing a tour next year.

 

Indeed. It's not like it's rocket science - even *I* have run
high-volume ecommerce websites!

Phil

 

Veggie Dave said...

I bought my daughter Caz tickets to see Take That for her 13th birthday.
That was over 11 years ago. She's grown up since then.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Champ

<stares hard at floor>
<shoulders start to shake>
<stares even harder at floor>

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Wicked Uncle Nigel said...

You managed to buy tickets? Two of them by any chance?

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Lozzo

No, not me. Mrs WUN wants the CD for Chrimbo, mind. I was just amused by
Ben's blatant "It's for the missus" line.

Which one's your favourite, Ben?

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Of course. And her sister.

It'd be a toss-up between Jason and Howard.

 

Anya went to every concert last time around.

I can understand the desire to go to the reunion gig, after all I went
to both Motley Crue and Black Sabbath's reunion tours.