IFfy Web site lives again
Bankety bunk
Posted in e-Business, 3rd October 2002 16:22 GMT
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If.com - the Halifax's Internet bank - is working again after going titsup for the last four or five days. Thankfully, normal service was restored last evening. So far so good.
So, what went wrong?
A spokeswoman told The Register: "Some specialist code caused problems with our user profile database which made the database unusable under load." ®
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