Thursday, January 25, 2007

Government house valuation website slashdotted?

It looks like the Goevrnment's Valuation Office may have been slashdotted by the mainstream media. Across the front page of the London freesheet, Metro, and in most of the other papers was the story that original Council Tax valuations were probably wrong and millions of people are likely to be entitled to rebates as a result. The stories direct everyone to the Valuation office website here.

Sadly the website is running a little bit slow... suggesting that the slashdot effect has struck again and effectively shown how the Government's website infrastructure isn't particularly well scaled to handle massive surges in traffic. Funny that?

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