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Yeah. That was very tongue in cheek. It must be seriously hard to plan the resource for a single moment when thousands of people will click at once and then there'll next to no traffic for weeks afterwards.
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Not really. I couldn't do it but there are people who specialise in horizontally scaling this kind of task using AWS/Azure/etc.
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You do it by not hiding a very simple list behind a needless postcode checker.
If you must have a postcode checker, put it live later when 50 million people aren’t trying to check it during the same minute.
jellybaby
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Normally the gov.uk stuff is very well designed.