Singaporeans Flock to NSP.sg Causing Temporary Website Crash.
Late last night after the airing of the Party Political Broadcast delivered by Lim TeanNSP Secretary General, the website
NSP.sg crashed due to sheer volume of use.The media team scrambled to solve the issue.
The traffic flow statistics revealed this was not an attack but rather an organic surge of users in high volume.
The figures reveal a massive increase in hits and views, reaching almost 600k by day 3 of September.
“We were taken by surprise” a member of the media team reported.“ We have been monitoring traffic and we can see that for example, after the live debate on the 1st Sept when various Singapore forums were awash with praise and excitement over Lim Tean’s performance we saw a spike in activity then. However we had no idea that by day 3 we would see so much more or else we would have increased bandwidth at that time.
It’s a quality problem. We are so happy that netizens are mobilized and using the internet in such volumes to find out the information for themselves rather than wait for MSM to deliver it to them. Thankfully the Party Political Broadcast was very late, so by the time the website crashed we were able to restore overnight and it was back up by breakfast time. So aside from a lack of sleep for some of the media team there is no harm done”
The NSP were quick to add extra bandwidth to cope with the new higher traffic volume, and will be prepared for the rest of the campaign.
When asked which pages were viewed the most, the media team spokesperson replied “by far it was the manifesto page. It seems to be that once people heard Lim Tean’s speech (and the live debate) they came over to NSP.sg to check out the actual core issues the party stands for.
This is important and exciting because it shows a new political behavior from Singaporeans, to research and discover for themselves so they can make an informed choice on polling day. This is exciting news for opposition parties like the NSP who cannot always rely on fair representation in the mainstream press”