Website of representative John Boehner (R-Ohio), one of the many sites that saw downtime Tuesday
(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- The websites of various Congress members crashed Tuesday after their servers were flooded by traffic from Americans concerned about the nation's debt limit.
The sudden surge in traffic was in response to President Obama's speech Monday night which urged citizens who "want a balanced approach to reducing the deficit" to contact their congressional representatives.
The following morning, the Capitol switchboard was overwhelmed with phone calls, and at their peak saw more than 40,000 phone calls between noon and 1 pm.
Americans also took to the Internet to speak out on the tax ceiling, visting the webpages of Congress members and other government websites.
The massive traffic overloaded servers, whose pages are hosted by a Washington, DC-based hosting company called Fireside21 (http://www.fireside21.com/).
Visitors to House Speaker John Boehner's (R-Ohio) site Tuesday were met by a message that read, "The web page cannot be found".
Meanwhile, the web pages of presidential candidate Rep. Michele Bachmann's (R-Minn.), House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (Va.), the House Democrats' Budget Committee site and several Demoncractic websites also reportedly experienced outages.
The downtime has caused chairman of the House Administration Subcommittee on Oversight to consider holding hearings on developing methods to stop phone and web page from going offline in the future.
The subcommittee is looking into bringing in some IT experts to determine the severity of the outage issue and if it can be resolved.
"Was it just some glitch that a little teak that costs virtually nothing could be put in place so it doesn't happen again? Or if it's going to be a huge revamp, how much money will it cost and can we justify that?", said chairman Phil Gingrey (R-Ga.).
Congressional websites have experienced similar outages in the past. In March 2010, conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh told listeners concerned about the health care reform to call the Capitol switchboard, which led to The House being overwhelmed with some 40,000 calls per hour.
The sudden surge in traffic was in response to President Obama's speech Monday night which urged citizens who "want a balanced approach to reducing the deficit" to contact their congressional representatives.
The following morning, the Capitol switchboard was overwhelmed with phone calls, and at their peak saw more than 40,000 phone calls between noon and 1 pm.
Americans also took to the Internet to speak out on the tax ceiling, visting the webpages of Congress members and other government websites.
The massive traffic overloaded servers, whose pages are hosted by a Washington, DC-based hosting company called Fireside21 (http://www.fireside21.com/).
Visitors to House Speaker John Boehner's (R-Ohio) site Tuesday were met by a message that read, "The web page cannot be found".
Meanwhile, the web pages of presidential candidate Rep. Michele Bachmann's (R-Minn.), House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (Va.), the House Democrats' Budget Committee site and several Demoncractic websites also reportedly experienced outages.
The downtime has caused chairman of the House Administration Subcommittee on Oversight to consider holding hearings on developing methods to stop phone and web page from going offline in the future.
The subcommittee is looking into bringing in some IT experts to determine the severity of the outage issue and if it can be resolved.
"Was it just some glitch that a little teak that costs virtually nothing could be put in place so it doesn't happen again? Or if it's going to be a huge revamp, how much money will it cost and can we justify that?", said chairman Phil Gingrey (R-Ga.).
Congressional websites have experienced similar outages in the past. In March 2010, conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh told listeners concerned about the health care reform to call the Capitol switchboard, which led to The House being overwhelmed with some 40,000 calls per hour.
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