Handling the flash crowds.Administrators at Los Rios Community College District The Los Rios Community College District is a special district providing administrative services and governance for the community colleges serving the greater Sacramento area and points east all the way to Lake Tahoe (map). (Calif.) were excited when they made the upgrade from PeopleSoft 7 to version 8 earlier this year. Their moods darkened dark·en v. dark·ened, dark·en·ing, dark·ens v.tr. 1. a. To make dark or darker. b. To give a darker hue to. 2. To fill with sadness; make gloomy. 3. , though, when they realized that new internet See Web 2.0 and Internet2. applications, which were intended to accommodate more website traffic for online registration and other administrative tasks, would overload the existing servers. Los Rios, a district of 80,000 students, had to brace itself for the "flash crowd." The flash refers to the massive amount of hits a college's website can receive at key times during the year. The weeks set aside for registration fit into this category. Complicating com·pli·cate tr. & intr.v. com·pli·cat·ed, com·pli·cat·ing, com·pli·cates 1. To make or become complex or perplexing. 2. To twist or become twisted together. adj. 1. matters in such a large community college district are the number of students who are offsite and who do not live on or near the campus. A few tries at connecting from home or office and they give up in frustration, says Brian Roach roach: see cockroach. roach Common European sport fish (Rutilus rutilus) of the carp family (Cyprinidae), found in lakes and slow rivers. A high-backed, yellowish green fish with red eyes and reddish fins, the roach is 6–16 in. , an IT administrator. The college district didn't have the $300,000 or so that it would take to install new servers. It found, instead, compression hardware that would allow more data to course through the system. A $30,000 investment paid off in that the box, which works with the existing services, takes the stress off the hardware, allowing 100 or so users to access any one application at any given time. |
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