Waiting for 30 minutes to access the Web site of the Road Safety Authority, the Irish equivalent of the DMV. Too bad they don’t have physical offices where I could queue personally…
Waiting for 30 minutes to access the Web site of the Road Safety Authority, the Irish equivalent of the DMV. Too bad they don’t have physical offices where I could queue personally…
It does seem to be an external site. Likely, the main site running on a CDN or at least outside their actual infrastructure is informed when traffic is high, so they start redirecting to the queue site.
The queue site starts to create a virtual queue of people trying to visit. The main site requests x users at a time depending on load and queue site then redirects to the actual site with some cookie proving you’re the valid person.
In this way, the load on their site is minimal.
Having said that, just how much traffic does this road safety site generate to need a queue? Is there something that happens this time of year everyone needs to do?