Tax needn’t be taxing thanks to TaxCalc

One of our customers has the lovely looking bandwidth graph on the right which plummeted to zero this morning. Normally a huge sudden drop in activity on a customer site would be cause for alarm but this is the excellent TaxCalc, they do software to calculate tax and it gets very busy in the run up to the deadline for self assessment at midnight last night.

As customers of our enhanced management services with a 24/7 SLA who run a fully mirrored setup across two of our data centres, we’re happy to report that everything went smoothly and their system scaled beautifully to handle the load.

Thankfully our elected overlords have decided to smooth out the load on our servers with new personal tax accounts and shortly we’ll all have to fill in four tax returns per year instead of one.