IRCTC upgrades servers, 15K tickets/min now possible

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With five more servers, the number of concurrent users is expected to go up from the existing 180,000 to 300,000 while the existing capacity to book around 15,000 tickets per minute will go up considerably.

“Five new HP Itanium servers, to be installed shortly in the Passenger Reservation System (PRS), would considerably speed up the booking of e-tickets and streamline the Next Generation E-Ticketing System (NGET),” IRCTC Chairman and Managing Director AK Manocha today said.

“There are already five servers in the PRS and with the addition of five new servers from Singapore, their number would go up to ten,” he said.

The operationalisation of five new high-speed servers is expected to substantially enhance the website’s performance.

Also, the entire procedure of e-ticketing will get a face-lift with improvement in efficiency of the website, log-in time and payment gateway.

IRCTC is also planning to increase its network bandwidth from the existing 1.4 GB to 1.7 GB in order to enhance the performance of e-ticketing operations.

http://www.thehindu.com/news/nation...trengthen-ticketing-system/article7358210.ece
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So They have 5-6 Servers now with 1.4Gbps Bandwidth. ROFL :dead:


This is Freaking Big News..
 
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Last year they had upgraded their servers. Booking during tatkal time was very fast. One could log in at 9.58am and be able to book tickets. I no longer needed to login at 9.45am and keep on refreshing the page.

But 2 months back, when I was booking tickets for a colleague I had a very bad experience. Just after 10am, the servers literally crashed. If you try to refresh the part of the page where the Book Now option appears, it used to freeze for 1-2 mins. By this time all tickets were booked. And this happened 3-4 weeks in a row. It felt like they had removed whatever upgrades they had installed last year.

Hope this upgrade lasts for a longer time!
 
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