There are no active DDoS attacks today targetting these sites as per the threat monitoring service I use.
I should also mention that a DDOS attack would make the websites not accessible and you would not see a screen of any type load (or a working screen load very, very slowly). The screen shots shown in this thread show the users are being presented with screens showing webserver load problems or internal website failures.
They didn't anticipate how popular the sites were going to be, at least for the first day. That's the right kind of problem to have. They'll push some more hardware under the system and move on to the next problems. Rinse, repeat, and Obamacare will work.
Demonstrating yet again their eternal incompetence. No, it won't work. I'm sure you'll be glad to know we will be stuck with it though. Congress doesn't shut down failed programs. They simply increase the failed agency's budget on the premise it's not working because we're just not spending enough money on it yet. Rinse. Repeat...
The ACA bureaucracy is larger then the India railroad company and the Chinese army bureaucracy, COMBINED.
You've just unwittingly given our pro big government bleeding heart liberals reason to high five each other. Now us taxpayers OTOH....
Actually most of the problems seen today will not be solved by pushing more hardware. Many of the problems involve incomplete coding (e.g. - nobody exists when you want to chat) or database structural failures. These problems need to be fixed via corrective software updates. When you actually look at the load these websites experienced today - it can only be described as moderate. Most gaming services handle 100x the Obamacare load each day. Being able to design and scale to handle a moderate website load is a problem that has been solved thousands of times - and any involved Obamacare IT team should be ashamed of their complete failure today. This may be a good time to mention there are plenty of load testing tools available for testing websites before you put them into production. Why didn't the Obamacare IT teams test their websites using IXIA or some other appropriate tool?
I don't know, but if the websites were overbuilt on the taxpayer's dime we'd still have criticism, just on the flip side. Edit: by the way, MMORPGs are famous for chaos at release.
In other news... "Clearly the NSA doesn't monitor Facebook. That's where all the experts are solving this Government standoff." Maybe they also need to check-in at P&R on Elite.