ENOUGH already. The website **IS** working

[Demo_Chris]

17. I don't know about Hertz, but I do know about...

ONLINE GAMES.

Take, for example, a game like Eve Online for which the numbers are readily available. As I type this there are currently 40,160 people from all over the world playing this game. All of them are on one non-instanced game world, all are continuously streaming information to and from the servers, and all expect microsecond response times, at all times, without fail. And it cannot fail or slow, because at any given monent thousands of these players might be gathered in mass battles against each other flying pretend spaceships sometimes worth hundreds of real world dollars each. When they blow up the money is gone, so they damn well better not blow up due to some server failure.

Eve Online, run by CCP games, a small gaming company out of Iceland, can simultaniously handle massive data from 40,000 plus people, every second, continuously, while the hundred million dollar "Obamacare Online" website can handle 17,000 per hour -- and most of that 17,000 is not simultaniously transmitting anything, they are filling out forms. And it gets worse... where Eve Online has to accomodate all of these people on a single server (everyone must be able to interact with each other), the Obamacare website can subdivide people into as many servers as they need.

And of course, Eve isn't even a BIG game. It's only got 500K subscribers. I believe World of Warcraft is the largest, with about 10 Million subscribers. WOW has more people playing their game every day than the Obamacare websites are expected to handle over this three month crash enrollment period.

Everyone involved in this hundred-million dollar debacle, including the HHS Sec, should be out on their ass.

http://eve-offline.net/?server=tranquility