http://run.phast.org/uncategorized/activecom-sucks/ running up mountains..... slowly Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:32:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 http://run.phast.org/uncategorized/activecom-sucks/comment-page-1/#comment-2 Greg Hawley Sat, 03 Mar 2007 04:20:34 +0000 http://run.phast.org/uncategorized/activecom-sucks/#comment-2 My training goal for the winter was to prepare for the Horribly Hilly Hundred's challenge ride. It also opened opened at the same time on active.com. I spent an hour trying to register (split between two sessions). The active.com web site was a complete disaster -- I waited 10 minutes between hitting okay on the screen that had my credit card and the time that web page submission timed out. The folks at active.com need to spread things out or buy more servers. They don't seem to be doing a good job of load balancing. Why would have have a whole bunch of races and rides all start their registration at 8 AM PST? It seems to me they were just not planning. I'm mad. I'm also not signed up for the challenge ride that's been my training goal through the winter. I've been buying stuff off the web for as long as anybody. Yesterday represents the worst e-commerce experience of my Internet life. My training goal for the winter was to prepare for the Horribly Hilly Hundred’s challenge ride. It also opened opened at the same time on active.com. I spent an hour trying to register (split between two sessions). The active.com web site was a complete disaster — I waited 10 minutes between hitting okay on the screen that had my credit card and the time that web page submission timed out. The folks at active.com need to spread things out or buy more servers. They don’t seem to be doing a good job of load balancing. Why would have have a whole bunch of races and rides all start their registration at 8 AM PST? It seems to me they were just not planning. I’m mad. I’m also not signed up for the challenge ride that’s been my training goal through the winter. I’ve been buying stuff off the web for as long as anybody. Yesterday represents the worst e-commerce experience of my Internet life.

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