One of the issues David Minster hit on during the A&F meeting corresponded to some posts I made years ago in the LoTW online group.

There is no reason that this system should NOT be running on a cloud-based virtualized server. Even if portions of the design are single threaded, the ability to add processing power (memory, cpu, IO bandwidth) on the fly and in anticipation of these peak workload, is essential and CAN BE DONE QUICKLY without a total system re-write.

System capacity can likely be then bumped up 4x-10x around contest weekends without purchasing gear.

Sticking it on a hardware server in a data center is prudent but not smart with a workload that varies like this.

Corporations do this routinely with workload, such as month/year end closings, trial balances, etc.

I have skills needed to design a plan to do this and will offer, again, to DONATE time to analyze our current state develop a confidential plan.

One of the reasons I ran for this position is that the prior director was clueless about League IT challenges. I know this is one of many, but it is “low hanging fruit” and can be addressed before a design of lotw 2.0 can be agreed upon.

On Mon, Nov 30, 2020 at 1:30 PM Roderick, Rick, K5UR via arrl-odv <arrl-odv@reflector.arrl.org> wrote:

It's backlogged due to all of of the downloads from the CQWW contest this past weekend. It was running 10 hours behind earlier this morning.

Rick

-----Original Message-----
From: Minster, David NA2AA (CEO) <dminster@arrl.org>
To: Tharp, Mark, KB7HDX (VD, NW) <kb7hdx@gmail.com>; arrl-odv <arrl-odv@arrl.org>
Sent: Mon, Nov 30, 2020 12:26 pm
Subject: [arrl-odv:31410] Re: LOTW Broke?

I just jumped on to see if I could replicate. Went through ARRL network and cellular network. Went into logs and awards. No errors.

I will forward onto the team in case this is the tip of the iceberg.

David

From: arrl-odv <arrl-odv-bounces@reflector.arrl.org> On Behalf Of Mark J Tharp
Sent: Monday, November 30, 2020 1:22 PM
To: arrl-odv <arrl-odv@arrl.org>
Subject: [arrl-odv:31409] LOTW Broke?

Third time this morning I have seen this error.

Is it just me?

Mark, HDX

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