THE HILL – A test on a central component to the ObamaCare website conducted the day before launch revealed that the system could only handle 1,100 concurrent users before overloading, according to internal documents released by House Republicans.
“Currently we are able to reach 1,100 users before response time gets too high,” reads the document, released by House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (D-Calif.).
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The report also indicated that government contractors began working to “tune” the system to “handle maximum load” following the test. It also found that contractors tasked with running the site planned “more thorough testing” designed to reach targets of 10,000 simultaneous users in the days following the launch.
Read more at The Hill.
