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You Don't Need Your Government Today
Speaking of Utah.gov, it’s offline and returning a 503 (Service Temporarily Unavailable) error. Anyone know what’s up? In the meantime, you don’t need your government today—go away and come back tomorrow.
And as long as we’re talking about eGovernment, Google launched a specialized search engine for US Government information. The page can be personalized, if you log in. The personalization includes feeds from various government and non-government news sources as well as the ability to add random RSS feeds.
Posted by windley on June 15, 2006 10:20 AM
Comment from John at June 15, 2006 10:46 AM
Site was up when I tried it @10:46.
Comment from Phil Windley at June 15, 2006 10:53 AM
Yup, it's back now. I'm still interested in know why it was down, if anyone knows.
Comment from Jeff Lewis at June 15, 2006 1:14 PM
My guess is that it was "DrudgeReport'ed". Slammed because of traffic from the Drudge Report.
Comment from Connor at June 16, 2006 9:32 AM
How long was the site down for?
Comment from Dave at July 19, 2006 9:15 AM
I know this is a late response, but regarding this incident, Utah.gov was not actually down. For a 15 minute period on June 15, the traffic through Utah.gov was extremely high due to the auction sale of certain high demand hunting licenses. If users did not get into the first come auction immediately, they were spamming refresh. This issue will be resolved in future auctions. Unfortunately, the high level of traffic caused some users to time out during this period.
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