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Gauteng education moves #Admissions2017 site to Vodacom servers to deal with traffic woes

As a result of the chaos caused by heavy traffic to its #Admissions2017 website during its launch last week, theGauteng Department of Education has had to ask a major South African network for help.

According MEC Panyaza Lesufi, when the site was piloted in 2016, the department had initially thought of outsourcing the development and hosting of the site, but was approached by three department employees with IT experience to do the job instead, at no cost.

“As one who believes strongly in insourcing, I gave these young men the opportunity,” Lesufi said.

When the site launched 11th April, the volume of visitors to the site per second was too great for the it too handle and the department therefore had to relocate the server from the department to State Information Technology Agency SITA.

“When I suggested that we migrate all our systems to their offices, they duly complied. That’s when we announced parents could apply as from today at 8am,” the MEC added.

However, SITA also indicated that the number of visitors and log ins were so huge, that it feared its system would also crash.

Lesufi then took the next step and approached Vodacom and requested they accommodate the site.

“I’m grateful to this cellular company, without any hesitation, they agreed and they expanded the system’s capacity from 3 000 visitors per second [which was the capacity set by SITA] to 20 000,” Lesufi said.

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