To the problems with overload of the NS website, consider the NS to have a second site with a separate url to create for when the current site goes down. It is one of the scenarios that the NS is considering.
A spokesman of the Dutch Railways confirmed the plans after The Financieele Dagblad there is a message about this was published. The opening of a second website is one of the scenarios that is being considered to allow the structural problems with overload of the NS website. According to spokesman Eric Trinthamer of the carrier would that second site, for example, only current travel information can include, making it lighter.
According to Trinthamer is considered to be the second site with a separate url. “Without a second url, you can’t have a separate website set up,” he says. However, it is intended for visitors of NS.nl in the event of overload to lead to the second site. Why that website is not flat would go when all the traffic from the first is transmitted, is, however, unclear.
Trinthamer says: “It should be as user-friendly as possible. It is one of the measures which the minister may have sent.” Another option is a backup on the same url runs, as also is customary for backuplocaties.
Problems on the track often lead to problems on the NS website. Also last week Friday, when the snowfall in the Netherlands for large delays caused, the website was hardly accessible, while travelers, in contrast, were called upon to make in connection with those issues on the website to look. According to the NS, the website may currently 24,000 visitors per minute. A year was the maximum load even up to 7000 visitors per minute.