Posted on 11/02/2013 10:17:07 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Obamacare website to be down again for maintenance late Saturday
12:51pm EDT
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The glitch-ridden website used to sign up for insurance under President Barack Obama's healthcare law will be down for "extended maintenance" overnight on Saturday, the Department of Health and Human Services said.
The website has been plagued by technology problems and has not worked reliably since its launch on October 1, embarrassing the administration and providing ammunition for Republicans seeking to roll back the law known as Obamacare.
The application, enrollment tools, and "data hub" will not be available from about 9 p.m. ET on Saturday (0100 Sunday GMT) until 9 a.m. ET (1400 GMT) on Sunday, a spokeswoman for the department said in a statement, telling consumers they can call a toll-free call center to apply for insurance in the meantime.
"The HealthCare.gov tech team is performing extended maintenance this weekend to improve network infrastructure and make enhancements to the online application and enrollment tools," said Joanne Peters, the spokeswoman.
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Its down its running a sub routine of 18 holes
The website is actually being keyed to DOS 3.1, the graphic interface is cobbled from Android.
No incompatibilities there....
These people put the term “FUBAR” to shame. Just throw stuff at the wall so maybe something sticks.
Didn’t know it was up.
Probably resetting to non-daylight savings time.
Maybe there will come a time when they realize
that their attempts to “fix” it are just making
it more inoperative.
Actually the Obamacare site is hosted on Akamai's Linux servers, which are ultra-reliable, and a good choice for large sites. Some years ago, Microsoft's main site microsoft.com, which of course was hosted on Windows servers, went down unexpectedly due to server problems, and while they got it running again, THEY hosted on Akamai's Linux servers (causing no end of guffaws from the open source community).
So, the Obamacare site being "down" doesn't mean the hosting servers are in trouble at all. It means this is the first of many downs while they try to figure out what the heck they're going to do with all the broken SOFTWARE on the website.
That's where the trouble lies.
... and the problem with the website SOFTWARE is that it's written in Microsoft 8K BASIC.
They’re going to give it a lube job to see if that will speed it up.
Somebody found a copy of Gibson SpinRite, and they're going to try it on the hard drives.
LOL!
“Error: HTTP 404 Not Found” is being replaced by “Down for Maintenance”?
Actually, it is not the book that is causing that expression. I have it on good authority that just after she read the title she looked up to see someone holding up a wooden cross in full view and she reacted instinctively to it...
I find it interesting that companies like Google, RedHat, and Oracle are sending in “gurus” to help out.
Because every floundering mega project needs a few more egotistical generals to direct the troops....
Microsoft used to run their HR/Payroll on an IBM AS/400
The AS/400 was a decent machine, by reputation, as I recall. Never worked on one myself, but I thought the object-oriented operating system concept was kinda neat.
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