However, that was six months ago, and the PRO have yet to find a solution for the issues confronting them.
The website had been expected to serve roughly one million hits a day (a hit is a single request for a file from the server, e.g. an HTML document, a graphic or a soundfile), but in the short lifespan it had, in early January, it was receiving in excess of 30 million requests a day, as people repeatedly tried to gain access to the straining site. The demand was so strong that BT, ISP for the site, had to block many users from entering due to the strain on it's own servers affect BT's other clients' sites.
www.pro.gov.uk
