NICE: Stress tests show Obamacare website could only handle 1100 users on day before launch

You know, it makes sense that a website that would become unresponsive after 1100 users access it at once would be launched to a nation of over 300 million people. It totally makes sense….if you’re a nutter who belongs in a crazy house.

Yet, that is what happened:

NBC NEWS – Internal documents obtained exclusively by NBC News reveal that “stress tests” done to a key component of Healthcare.gov the day before the website went live showed it could only handle 1100 users at once before it became overloaded.

“Currently we are able to reach 1100 users before response time gets too high,” the report says of a test done on Sept. 30. It added that website developer CGI Federal was “making changes to configuration.”

The internal documents, released by Republicans on the House Oversight and Government Affairs Committee, are titled the “ACA Daily Testing Bulletin,” and show a list of tests done by the contractor QSSI in the days surrounding the site’s roll-out.

In other news, the CIO for CMS has resigned over the horrible Obamacare rollout:

NBC NEWS – The Chief Information Officer for the agency running the troubled health insurance website has resigned, officials confirmed on Wednesday — but they wouldn’t say whether he was a casualty of the messy rollout.

Tony Trenkle, the CIO for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, “made a decision that he was going to move to the private sector,” CMS spokeswoman Julie Bataille told reporters.

Members of Congress have been calling for someone to be fired to take responsibility for the embarrassing debut of the centerpiece of health reform — many even calling for Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to resign. Bataille would not say whether Trenkle had been asked to resign.


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