World Cup Ticketing Part VI

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  1. jbauer

    jbauer Member

    Feb 2, 2010
    Club:
    Tottenham Hotspur FC
    I think i saw Cat 3 red for that, but the others were yellow
     
  2. Nailsea Hammer

    Nailsea Hammer New Member

    Apr 20, 2009
    Club:
    West Ham United FC
    About 4 hours ago. It seems that only a few people on this board managed to get in and get the tickets they wanted before then.
     
  3. Scorpyn78

    Scorpyn78 Member+

    Real Madrid
    Argentina
    May 27, 2009
    Saudi Arabia
    Club:
    Manchester United FC
    haha! Are you trying to make me feel guilty? You know I did think about it. The thing is, scanners have been hitting the site for days now and it never crashed before. Such sites are supposed to handle hundreds of continuous hits. What happened today was basically because the servers were not able to handle the heavy traffic caused by thousands of users trying to buy tickets on the site (not using the scanners). So yeah, nice try :p

    Come to think of it, my name will not be too popular in South Africa right now, specially among the people standing in lines for so long.
     
  4. usaforthecup

    usaforthecup Member

    Apr 17, 2009
    After all the seriousness of this morning this post made me crack up. No pun intended.

    I would think they would (and should) keep the availability to access tickets closed for a while on the internet and let the people standing in line catch up - I know they are after mainly Cat 4 tickets - but to make sure the system will operate for them at least for a while.

    Out of interest does anyone with IT knowledge know how the system can take so long to get back up? Unless there is an integrity issue I don't see why.
     
  5. Scorpyn78

    Scorpyn78 Member+

    Real Madrid
    Argentina
    May 27, 2009
    Saudi Arabia
    Club:
    Manchester United FC
    I think they are just trying to figure out why it crashed to make sure it doesnt happen again once it's up. Usually, a simple reboot works and I think they did try it cuz the site was up for a while and working fine after crashing. That didnt last long and in a matter of minutes it died again.
     
  6. Timanfaya

    Timanfaya Member+

    May 31, 2005
    Southampton
    There's not much point getting the system back up if they think it's going to collapse again as soon as it gets a hammering. First they have to change something that will give it a chance of surviving.

    (Edit: Scorpyn78 beat me to it.)
     
  7. Nailsea Hammer

    Nailsea Hammer New Member

    Apr 20, 2009
    Club:
    West Ham United FC
    I would hope they are putting a queuing system of some sort on line to restrict people accessing pages with 'real tickets' to whatever it can cope with. Quite amazing that they dont have it already really.

    Actually, I suspect there is no technical issue other than not being able to cope with load, so they have deliberately taken it off line and they'll quietly make the pages available tonight when everyone in Europe and America has gone home from work. I think this happened at start of phase V?

    I also hope they let the over the counter sales start up earlier. It's a bit irritating for us pressing F5 but hardly compares to queuing for 6+ hours outside a bank.
     
  8. kayoss

    kayoss Member

    May 6, 2009
    Club:
    Bnei Yehuda Tel Aviv FC
    just said on the radio that the system is back up in FNB's and Checkers..
     
  9. Gronum

    Gronum Member

    Feb 10, 2010
    Club:
    --other--
    we know where you live.....:cool:
     
  10. Gronum

    Gronum Member

    Feb 10, 2010
    Club:
    --other--
    um.. can you direct me to those drugs...just in case?:D
     
  11. kayoss

    kayoss Member

    May 6, 2009
    Club:
    Bnei Yehuda Tel Aviv FC
    Do you know bruma flea market?

    I doubt there will be many, if any, cat 4 tickets left now.. now that the checkers, fnb's and ticketing centres are back up then they'll go very quickly.
     
  12. royial

    royial Member

    May 16, 2009
    Club:
    Manchester United FC
    So why we still can't access the online website?
     
  13. migueldv

    migueldv Member

    May 8, 2006
    Lisbon
    Relax Scorpyn! We'll be your "army" and defend you at all cost in SA :)
     
  14. kayoss

    kayoss Member

    May 6, 2009
    Club:
    Bnei Yehuda Tel Aviv FC
    Maybe they've found a way to allow just the OTC sale to be opened..?

    It's been headlines on the radio for the last hour.
     
  15. krepunk

    krepunk New Member

    Apr 18, 2010
    Club:
    Manchester United FC
    They've removed the entire ticket section from the site...apparently it'll be back up at 6pm (SA Time) but I wouldnt hold my breath.
     
  16. Riaz2010

    Riaz2010 New Member

    Apr 29, 2010
    Zululand - RSA
    Club:
    Liverpool LFC
    Nat'l Team:
    Spain
    Just called FNB and their systems are up and running................
     
  17. TRUEAGGIE

    TRUEAGGIE Member

    Jan 26, 2005
    Las Vegas
    Re: Scorpyn THE LEGEND :)

    Nobody help this guy please, he is a tout
     
  18. royial

    royial Member

    May 16, 2009
    Club:
    Manchester United FC
    Means that locals can buy the tickets and we don't :(
     
  19. Gronum

    Gronum Member

    Feb 10, 2010
    Club:
    --other--
    not really - FNB is a bank and closes at 4 or 4 thirty
     
  20. kayoss

    kayoss Member

    May 6, 2009
    Club:
    Bnei Yehuda Tel Aviv FC
    they are staying open late today because of the problems they had earlier..
     
  21. kayoss

    kayoss Member

    May 6, 2009
    Club:
    Bnei Yehuda Tel Aviv FC
    and checkers and ticketing centres are open until 6 i think
     
  22. royial

    royial Member

    May 16, 2009
    Club:
    Manchester United FC
    I don't see the buy tickets link in Fifa Ticketing website.
    Is it only me?
     
  23. kayoss

    kayoss Member

    May 6, 2009
    Club:
    Bnei Yehuda Tel Aviv FC
  24. happythegooner

    Jun 6, 2007
    Cornwall, England
    Club:
    Arsenal FC
    I haven't seen it for a while.
     
  25. krepunk

    krepunk New Member

    Apr 18, 2010
    Club:
    Manchester United FC
    They took it down to allow for sales at the ticketing centres to continue I guess.
     

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