General Betting
There is currently 1 person viewing this thread.
These 152 comments are related to the topic:
Bloody Fantastic!
Bloody Fantastic!
sort by:
Show
per page
Replies: 152
|
By:
lite would get fraction of traffic and that was up and running for 30mins after problems with main site, it would still be running now but they have taken off line imo, same with api. The website cant handle the traffic because of bloat imo and other platforms are being taken down because main site is going down.
|
|
By:
This isn't a uniquely heavy day by any means Brendan,the site gets this much traffic and more all the time. Over the past 6 months or so it has generally been working very well, just recently it's gone caput again - just when they moved to Ireland.
|
|
By:
So you can't really blame BF ...They have zero competition ,so in true style they rest on their laurels
|
|
By:
It's never been quite the same since they put the colours on the racecard. Steady downhill fall since then as they've added more and more useless clutter.
|
|
By:
Does all this extra clutter actually make the site go down Lori?
|
|
By:
look at thwe wsdl, its been pulled. It would be still working imo
https://api.betfair.com/exchange/v5/BFExchangeService.wsdl Points to me that backend is ok and front end webserver are fecked. Why that is now you would have to go back ovr the recent deployments and see what has changed |
|
By:
jimmy - its like anything, the more possible points of failure there are, the higher the chance of a failure
|
|
By:
any way of traiding out positions pre kickoffs? tried lite, app, rapid and main site. Not looking good and will mean a serious afternoon on the crapper
|
|
By:
Sub , not if you have the proper infrastructure
|
|
By:
You have seen with even this forum their attitude to testing & deployments is cavalier at best
|
|
By:
EMeal
I bet you make money...if you do please come back and thank Betfair for the outage  |
|
By:
Coach - no IT system anywhere in the world is bug-free
its always about minimizing impact, and ensuring isolated components are minimally 'coupled' so i guess we are agreeing if that fits within your definition of 'infrastructure' |
|
By:
jimmy69:
way things have been going over the last month I seriously doubt it. Do I know go to normal account and back the draws??? |
|
By:
monopoly breeds arrogance breeds mediocrity breeds failure.
|
|
By:
I was sort of expecting them to void the 14:05 but seemingly not - works out fine for me but others must be fuming.
|
|
By:
They were not betting a Pricewise race this week ... leaving me in doubt whether I can changed my bets to 'take SP' in time.
Perhaps they won't be betting the Superbowl tomoz ... or the National or Royal Ascot. I get the feeling that the site is so tech- and numbers-oriented they've lost track of what their recreational and even professional clients care about. |
|
By:
*had changed
|
|
By:
I get the feeling that the site is so tech- and numbers-oriented they've lost track of what their recreational and even professional clients care about.
Spot on askari. 99% of their server requests are probably made by the middlemen that betfair claim to have cut out. If they ran Tesco you wouldn't be able to get into the store for kids taking up their offer of half price sweets. |
|
By:
Gone again?
|
|
By:
Yep
|
|
By:
yes it seems so. I think it is the database not the site. Notice how the aussie wallet balance still shows then it starts to go down.
|
|
By:
Website always goes first, API probably to follow, that's the pattern.
So API users now need to keep web interface open and test every few minutes to make sure it's not about to all crash.. (and that would indicate it's not the DB, it's the internet facing parts of their site are as stable as the millenium bridge when first opened) |
|
By:
not db other platforms still working
|
|
By:
bright colours attract losing punters ,but as one said before why overload the site with roulette , poker and scrabble ?
|
|
By:
Its disgusting, surely the owners will be sacking some people...the same thing happened on the Betfair Poker site, people didnt get there winnings and entrys for days, truely appaling service. Is anyone listening?
|
|
By:
back?
|
|
By:
Get the bl**dy API back up too.
|
|
By:
bets matched while the site's down - fecking thieving cnts
|
|
By:
Yip API went a couple minutes later. Website fails, then if you're lucky and see it, you've a short time to try and use API to try and safe your neck. Three times in one day.
|
|
By:
we should have a association of some type so that we together could make betfair pay for this b.s., that should make them ensure that things like this never happen again
but we are a bunch of sad lonely people here BETFAIR go to link or search keyword: redundancy http://zone.ni.com/devzone/cda/tut/p/id/6874 |
|
By:
Isn't it better to say "we have problems and we will be closed for a week". It's not easy to trade when you can not bet live...
I hope your cooperation with Goldman Sachs wont make you thieves as they are!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
|
By:
What you need is another exchange to charge you up to 90% less than betfair so that you can all take your famous liquidity there. Oh I forgot, there is such an exchange and you all already tried that before discovering that you don't supply liquidity at all.
 |
|
By:
you all already tried that before discovering that you don't supply liquidity at all
What are you talking about? A couple of high-profile forum posters threatened to go there after the introduction of the PC, but, of course, they didn't ever really stop betting here - there was never any drop in liquidity at that time. Liquidity begets liquidity, and unfortunately it will take something pretty major for one of BF's competitors to reach the critical mass required to draw the big players (ie TRADERS) away. |
|
By:
Not again. Jesus!!!
|
|
By:
Down again.
|
|
By:
https://lite.betfair.com/
still up atm |
|
By:
thanks brendan
|
|
By:
am I right in thinking at least two of these outages have hit a couple of minutes before TV football matches went in play?
|
|
By:
Correct.
I'm sure there's something suspicious going on. Back up now. |
|
By:
A couple of high-profile forum posters threatened to go there after the introduction of the PC, but, of course, they didn't ever really stop betting here - there was never any drop in liquidity at that time.
They arranged a walk out, they did stop betting here but you're right inasmuch as there was never any drop in liquidity on betfair. Nor was there any increase in the purple's. Liquidity begets liquidity, and unfortunately it will take something pretty major for one of BF's competitors to reach the critical mass required to draw the big players (ie TRADERS) away. The big players . How you people love yourselves. Do you mean it will take something big like charging a fifth of the commission betfair do? Is that not big enough? Would zero commission for traders be big enough? In truth it wouldn't be because what purple needs is the leech's host not the leech. |