Once again the Inland Revenue Board servers jammed up during the last few days. This is due to the massive traffic caused by the tax payers, us mainly, scrambling to the last minute to file in their income tax. Users complained, grunted and well some even bang their pc in frustration trying to enter and snail pacingly submit their income tax return.

Most users doesn’t realise that an overload server is caused by massive traffic entering the website at the same time. Take the traffic jam for example. On a 3 lane highway at normal day and non-rush hour time, it is a smooth drive.

But what happened when cars start to drive in during the rush hour like after office hours. Hundreds of cars driving on the same road and suddenly there comes an irresponsible driver, squeezed the three lanes into four lanes and then add in a road work, creating a road closure. So the three lanes now turned into one lane packed with hundreds of drivers, and what do you get? A major massive traffic jam.

And that is how a server overload is created. The principal is almost the same. Except its digital and the size of the files, number of servers, adverts and internet/ server connection plays a major part in it. Even though users use the high tech and brand new high speed bandwidth modem like Linksys router, you still will face a slow connection when there are server overloads.

So taxpayers, do your part in avoiding the e-filing tax return massive internet jam by submitting your tax returns a few weeks earlier. I’m sure the government had paid more than needed to oversee that this year’s income tax filing runs as smoothly as possible by purchasing newer, higher memory capacity servers to meet to their countrymen needs.

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