By: Jerome Auza
On January 24, 2015, the date of release of the Nurse Licensure Examination results for the November 2014 examination, the Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) website crashed and inaccessible to the public. It remained down for almost 24 hours.
In cases like this, websites like www.prcpassers.com, Rappler and other websites that post PRC results, become alternate source of information of the list of passers.
It is really disappointing that PRC could not even provide enough computing resource to support the website traffic whenever it releases licensure examination results. With all the cloud computing technology available, the PRC could perhaps utilize extra servers to handle the load during the time they release examination results to the public.
There are a few things PRC could do to improve the website service to the public without spending much. One is to change the way their website operates in publishing news. Since news items do not really change much at all, these should be published as static files which would load faster and with smaller computer resource consumption.
Another thing they could do is compress the downloadable list of users to reduce the amount of website traffic since the users need to download the list in order to check if they passed.
With all the fees paid to PRC by examinees and professionals all over the Philippines, it is an embarrassment to this government agency to have a service that becomes unusable when people would like to look up for information if they pass an exam or not.
