Budget junkies crash SA Treasury site
South Australian Treasury website infrastructure has buckled under the weight of users seeking state budget documents posted last night.
Treasury website check (Screenshot by Darren Pauli/ZDNet Australia)
The agency is building additional capacity to alleviate the user load that crippled both the SA Treasury and State Budget websites.
Budget documents were virtually inaccessible after file downloads of less than 10MB failed, or took hours to complete.
The websites were completely inaccessible for hours and access remains problematic today.
Treasury staff has said that the agency has sought external IT assistance to rebuild capacity via HP Enterprise Services, formerly EDS. HP, however, said that it was not involved in the rebuild. Staff indicated that the agency will invest in new equipment to prevent peak user loads from crashing the websites.
The agency is receiving a "continuous" stream of web traffic, according to one Treasury staffer.
It is hoped budget documents will be available later today.
(Front page image credit: BSOD 0x07B image by Justin Marty, CC2.0)
Updated at 3:26 pm, 17 September 2010: included comment from HP.