[dfwgator]

But stuff like selecting the security questions and password for your account...it’s inconceivable how that could be causing errors, and that indicates the original programmers didn’t know what they were doing.

Plus there are already third party packages, that already have been thoroughly tested for doing such common things as those.

[Lazamataz]

Plus there are already third party packages, that already have been thoroughly tested for doing such common things as those.

Don't forget the user load. I suppose you could put up an access wall, the portal lands on a farm of gatekeepers, that let you in as available, to the second farm of actual application servers. That is the 'throttling' technique that could work to keep the third-party stuff from dying under the load.