Shocker!
Via Washington Examiner:
Federal health officials explained the latest Obamacare website crash as an expected outage caused by a “load-balancing problem” and said the website is likely to suffer others as experts feverishly work to fix the site over the next four weeks.
Healthcare.gov shut down midafternoon Monday for roughly 90 minutes, preventing people from signing up for health care coverage on the federal insurance exchange.
“This is really an expected part of the process as we’re able to spot new issues and we expose more volume to the system,” Julie Bataille, spokeswoman for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, told reporters.
The daily 1:30 p.m. CMS update for the media was initially delayed to 1:45 p.m. and later to 4 p.m. The website appeared to be back up and running at around 2:20 p.m.
A government contractor working on repairing the website said the crash occurred because of a flaw in the way the system balanced the number of users among various servers.