[kictanet] eCitizen Service Down

Mon Jan 15 18:48:29 EAT 2018

Let's not be too critical. While I accept that hi-availability is a
standard practice that must be upheld,  we all experience outages wherever
we work and are responsible.

Let's not be too mean to the eCitizen team.  What if it is caused by a
service provider which is indeed a possibility.

Perhaps we should be requiring that an incident report be provided
publicly.

Happy New Year listers!

On Jan 15, 2018 6:39 PM, "kanini mutemi via kictanet" <
kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:

> I like eCitizen I do (or rather the concept). But my interactions with the
> platfrom always leave me with a bitter taste. It returns an error message
> quite often. Of course customer care is a huge problem. Online support is
> no better because they always tell you to call Customer Care. It’s also not
> the most user friendly of platforms so you get stuck quite a lot. Then
> there’s that controversial ‘convenience fee’ per transaction.
>
> On Mon, 15 Jan 2018 at 18:23, Ali Hussein via kictanet <
> kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
>
>> James
>>
>> You raise a very critical issue about critical government services. I’m
>> curious. Since Lilian from ICT has responded to Victor maybe she can come
>> back to us after consulting internally with answers to the following
>> questions:-
>>
>> 1. Where is the eCitizen Portal hosted and what are the SLA details?
>> 2. Why is it so difficult to get anyone on the Customer Service Line?
>> 3. There’s no recourse when there is an issue to resolve. In November I
>> had to pay twice for my driving license renewal. To date I’m not even sure
>> who to speak with for a refund.
>> 4. For such a critical service we are past the stage of being ‘happy’
>> simply to have the service. As citizens we expect NOTHING BUT THE BEST from
>> Silicon Savannah.
>> 5. When will the service be fully mobile enabled?
>>
>> It’s high time we elevate this service to world class standard. As it is
>> every time I think about using the service I start getting agitated.
>>
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>> On 15 Jan 2018, at 6:07 PM, James Muendo via kictanet <
>> kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
>>
>> Listers,
>>
>> Barack, I wonder whether those servers are here or out there. And if out
>> there, two critical questions arise:
>>
>> 1. What is the SLA agreement, and especially when it comes to getting the
>> service back within acceptable timeline(s)?
>> 2. Why host away from the country, yet we have companies like Node and
>> Angani, who I believe have the various competencies to handle such locally?
>> Plus there is KIXP to support the traffic that comes through? I believe a
>> great number of the users of the system are local. Why not make it easier
>> and quicker?
>>
>> Just wondering.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jan 15, 2018 at 5:06 PM, Barrack Otieno via kictanet <
>> kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
>>
>>> Teacher Karis,
>>>
>>> Maybe the servers are in another time zone, give them a few hours they
>>> will be opened.
>>>
>>> Regards
>>>
>>> On 15 Jan 2018 17:02, "Kelvin Kariuki via kictanet" <
>>> kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
>>>
>>>> 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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>>>>
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>>>>
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