Friday 17 August was e- learning day. We did not have to go to school but was to log on to ask n learn e- learning portal from 8 am - 9 am for Maths, Physics from 10 -11 am and English from 12 - 1 pm.
Many of my classmates logged on at midnight to retrieve the maths homework. Some even finished the work in the early hours of the morning. For me, i also logged on at midnight and went to sleep soon after. At 7.40 am i logged on to the portal again and started to upload my homework. At 8.15 am i noticed the internet connection was very slow.
Oh dear!! At 8.30 when i was trying to upload my maths homework, the server crashed. I received a message saying too many log-ins. How could that be????
I tried to enter the e- learning portal again but to no avail. At 11 am i finally gave up even though there was a message from a classmates saying that elarning homework had to be submitted before 5 pm, instead of 2 pm. An extension of 3 hours. But still the server could not be accessed... The page just refused to load......
At 12 pm, Edmund sms me that the elearning had been extended to 11.59 pm sunday.... Thanks Edmund!!!
I had to get off the computer to go eat my lunch but to me it was a wasted morning... Many of my classmates also got off without finishing their homework....
If you ask me, next time i hopextra number of log-ins. The school made all its sec 1-3 log on, that was about 1000 students. But a check to the ask n learn helpdesk found out that 2 more schools were participating inthe projecte that when the school decides to have an e-learning day, i hope that the server can take the as well . So something like 3000 students were on the portal when it crashed at 8.30 am ???? i read somewhere that for a server not to lag it should be able to handle at least twice the expected number of log-ins anticipated. In this case 6,000 or so hits at a time... So i've learnt this. Our school's elearning portal can't handle........
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