[kictanet] eCitizen Service Down

Julius Njiraini njiraini2001 at gmail.com
Mon Jan 15 20:02:53 EAT 2018


It's high time we get full details as consumers especially on cloud
services like data storage, infrastructure and services subscribed.
Unfortunately it's sad if that's true
On Jan 15, 2018 6:21 PM, "Walubengo J via kictanet" <
kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:

> This is serious.
>
> eCitizen is one of our few celebrated and widely cited government success
> stories.  It is unbelievable that it is down. Particularly when my
> understanding is that it is a cloud-based service.
>
> hope the concerned are urgently attending to it.
>
> walu.
>
> On Monday, January 15, 2018, 5:17:16 PM GMT+3, 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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