The Kurukshetra online programming contest (FLOP SHOW) was supposed to start at 2PM today, but due to mysterious circumstances was rescheduled to begin at 2:30 PM. At 2:30 they again postponed it to start at 3PM. And guess what the site goes down at 3PM. Somehow I managed to get the questions and also solved one, but then since the site is down I was not able to submit it and that really put me off.
Guys!!! was this supposed to be a joke. Maybe someone just thought of playing a practical joke on us geeks. Well they better not be playing a prank because if they are, then as Russel Peter's father says "Somebody is gonna get a hurt real bad!!"...
Bottomline. If you cannot take the load, dont host the contest. No point preparing the questions if your site goes down during the contest..
3 comments:
We do accept responsibility for the server outage. But do keep in mind that there were a lot stacked against us. Christmas time + weekend played against us in getting support readily from our hosting provider.
And for consolation, we were able to reconduct the OPC (On a better server of course). We learnt a lot from the episode though (we ARE just students with no practical experience in sys administration before hand). Our apologies if we spoilt your day.
Well as long as you guys learnt something from the experience it is good. You can share some knowledge then :) How about putting up a blog of what you learnt and what were the issues the first time around and how did you guys fix the issues, and do send me a link.
Well conducting an OPC during college days is a good achievement. (I too conducted one in our college). Congratulations on making it successful on the second attempt.
We re back this yr.Buigger and better www.kurukshetra.org.in
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