Thursday, April 11, 2013
County officials said that the amount of traffic caught them by surprise and hampered the ability of the public to access election results.
Officials for DuPage County are saying that the influx of traffic to their election results website, which crashed the page between 8 and 10 p.m. on Tuesday night, has been a wake-up call to necessary improvements, the Chicago Tribune reports. According to the paper, the problem was caused when the available bandwidth was exceeded; page views peaked at 15,000 within a few minutes, 5,000 more than the peak in the 2012 elections. "If you asked me 72 hours ago if the site would peak out 50 percent higher than a presidential election, I would've laughed," Robert Saar, the election commission's executive director, told the paper. "Everybody here had their eyes opened. We're disappointed that it happened, but I'm extremely confident that going …
Friday, January 4, 2013
Residents can vote for the city of Naperville in a web design contest now through Jan. 11.
The city of Naperville wants to know what you'd like to see on its new website. Recently, Naperville was named as a finalist in the CivicPlus “Extreme Website Makeover 2012” contest. CivicPlus is a company that designs and builds citizen-focused, interactive communication systems using advanced technology and specializes in city and county e-government, according to the city's website. The winner of the contest will receive a Premium CivicPlus designed website and two years of maintenance fees. The winner will be announced by Jan. 21, according to the city. This year, citizen participation and involvement is a factor in determining contest winners. To be considered for the grand prize, residents must nominate their community for the prize …
Friday, November 2, 2012
City restores email service and website after a virus attack last month.
All systems are go for the city of Naperville. While the city put its website back online Oct. 26 after a virus attack took down both the city's website and email Oct. 2, email service was still down throughout the week. But officials announced Thursday that its email is also now back up and running. Earlier: City of Naperville Website Back Online Get news in your inbox. Sign up for the Patch newsletter. Like Naperville Patch on Facebook. The Citizen Support Center feature on the city’s websiteis now functioning as well. Officials are asking that people discontinue using the temporary cityofnaperville@gmail.com address and instead use the Citizen Support Center or city staff email addresses. Live meeting streaming remains unavailable …
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2:18 pm on Saturday, April 13, 2013
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