[kictanet] eCitizen Service Down

[Kelvin Kariuki]

I have been trying it since morning, it gives this error:
"503 Service UnavailableNo server is available to handle this request."

Its time they commit to a serious Service Level Agreement. Of late the
downtime has been frequent, I have been in the process of registering a
company and most of the time the service is not available. As a community,
we are supposed to speak up about this to save the millions of Kenyans
suffering from this inconvenience.

The 503 Service Unavailable error is an HTTP status code that means the web
site's server is simply not available right now. *Most of the time, it
occurs because the server is too busy or because there's maintenance being
performed on it*... Read on:
https://www.lifewire.com/503-service-unavailable-explained-2622940

The error is most likely caused by simultaneous access by millions of
Kenyans, the servers they have can't handle that amount of traffic. They
should upgrade their data center. A Service Level Agreement will enforce
them to do that and Kenyans will get a convenient service.

On Mon, Jan 15, 2018 at 4:42 PM, Victor Kapiyo via kictanet <
kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:

> Hi Listers,
>
> Anyone noticed that the ecitizen portal is down. I'm not sure how
> frequently this happens but what's the acceptable downtime for such a
> critical service. Or should we go back to manual backup?
>
> Victor
>
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Best Regards,

Kelvin Kariuki
Assistant Lecturer
Multimedia University of Kenya
Faculty of Computing and Information Technology
Twitter Handle: @teacherkaris
Alt email: kkariuki at mmu.ac.ke
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