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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;midas1, post: 1290667, member: 21309&quot;]&quot;People complaining don&#039;t seem to realize this. I suppose the government should spend more tax dollars overdesigning a system to withstand a demand that&#039;s only present for less than 1% out of&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s not as tough as it seems.&nbsp; Before I retired from the Federal government two years ago they were moving a lot of computer time to offsite server farms. (I was on the record as resisting this migration for mission critical applications)&nbsp;&nbsp; Before I retired my workgroup had a system down time that was nonexistent most years.&nbsp; &nbsp; After the migration system downtime increased by a couple hours a year.&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p>I recently ran into a friend still working there&nbsp; he tells me so many applications have migrated to offsite server farms that the local IT shop that serves thousands of employees spread across </p><p>more than a dozen sites has lost a lot a management staff and some system administrators. .&nbsp;&nbsp; The point of all this is there is no reason the Mint couldn&#039;t reserve extra server time for events such as the sale of Anniversary sets.</p><p>However, what complicates Mint sales is I believe, sales are farmed out to a private entity.&nbsp; In that case the private company could reserve server time from anotherr private company.</p><p>The Mint needs to rewrite their contract to accommodate&nbsp; big sales events.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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