Betfair Down / Betfair site crash

[Euler]

Total shambles

[Euler]

I see the sportsbook is fine again.

[to75ne]

apparently you should be thankful

[LeTiss]

Nightmare today. My connection is in and out like a fart in a colander

[Kafkaesque]

BF are pushing the bourdaries of what's technically and logistically possible, 99.9% of the time we benefit from that. Millions of transactions a second and responses that we measure in milliseconds, anyone who's worked in systems will know that's not too shabby. If there's times we pay the price for that in inconvenience then so be it. I agree it could certainly be better, but I don't think it's worth losing sleep over, and I'm amazed and thankful it's there at all most of the time rather than being too miffed when it isn't.

I haven't worked in systems and don't have anywhere near enough knowledge on it to comment on how big a task, BF are solving each and every day.

As for common sense on the matter though. Moving stuff to Romania coinciding with overall outages, specific outages on in-play, plus more mundane stuff like messing up kickoff times (which has returned in recent weeks) and advertising matches as going in-play only to cancel said promise after the match has started (due to a poor, cheap choice of in-play service provider, going on the Sportsbook being fine) all speaks to trying to push the boundaries of what's possible...on as much of a shoestring budget as possible. Common sense says that equals disaster.

You replied to a post of mine some time ago, that you're looking to potentially expand into different leagues in football. It may well be too late mate. Just did a check. I've got 31 leagues noted that I used to trade, which I've had to scrap within the last year alone, due to any sort of liquidity disappearing, pre but mostly in-play. They've happened bit by bit and it's a continious stream of leagues, where the customers have stopped trusting BF.

Praise what they're in theory doing all you like, but outside of theoritical systems achievements, in more practical terms, BF are slowly but surely digging their own grave in market space where they have a virtual monopoly.

[Euler]

Betfair returned £500m to shareholders, just a tiny amount of that allocated to improving service would have worked wonders.

It feels like they are trying to prop up margins but cutting costs directly and indirectly in areas that are critical. It's the classic corporate malaise.

[ShaunWhite]

apparently you should be thankful

Glass half full or glass half empty.
If you want to go through life being misery guts then that's your choice.

[to75ne]

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apparently you should be thankful

Glass half full or glass half empty.
If you want to go through life being misery guts then that's your choice.

if you cover my loses due to wankers at betfair fecking up fair enough, otherwise give it a rest being a sanctimonious knowall bore.

[Emmson]

I never had a problem with the women's cricket game I have been trading for the past hour.'

[Euler]

Thirsk 14:45 failed to turn inplay. Abandon all hope.

[gutuami]

here we go again

[Derek27]

API down, markets suspended, no bet placement!

[eightbo]

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[Emmson]

Then that cricket market went down in the last over of a tight game....some one has got hurt by that.

Betfair a flipping disgrace that is the truth, not interested in excuses for their shoddy service....a few weeks ago they had an unscheduled outage that nearly f*cked me over at 5.00am

[eightbo]

Other markets now suspended also e.g. next few greyhounds