… its a website run by the US Government. Why does it have such large downtimes in this day and age?

  • citrusface
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    92 years ago

    The NC unemployment was website goes offline for maintenance every night. It’s so needlessly complicated on purpose.

      • citrusface
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        02 years ago

        I can’t see the comments you linked, but do see the other comments regarding data shuffle. My point still stands. Needlessly complicated. This could be updated if the state managed itself properly.

        • 🌴 𝓣𝓸𝓾𝓻𝓲𝓼𝓽
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          12 years ago

          You didn’t miss anything, everybody is giving them a pass because they have an old mainframe and until you’ve had to sync one you just don’t know. We all know the reason the government is still using mainframes from the 70s. You mean to tell me there’s no company that’s ever migrated away from a mainframe? It’s always a budget issue. And in the US anything that isn’t military spending is a budget issue.

        • @really
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          12 years ago

          Your point is incorrect. It is not needlessly complicated. It has to do with mainframe batch processing times.

          It’s not a conspiracy, it is a technical challenge that is not easy to some. It is complicated, but not needlessly. If it was easy, it would have been fixed.

          I am sure there are a number of private companies that do the same but simply don’t tell you.

          E.g., every bank has a cut off time for transfers, same reason.

          • citrusface
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            22 years ago

            Okay - fair. Good points. I yield. Thank you for the info - truly.