Does Grants.gov architecture have sufficient capacity to handle receipt of grant applications from the entire Federal government?
Grants.gov Apply functionality launched in October 31, 2003 with 4 servers and the ability to handled approximately 500 submissions a day. Site upgrades during June 2005 increased the overall system capacity to handle more than 1000 submissions per day. As recent as mid-October 2005, Grants.gov received over 800 submissions on a single day and experienced no decreased performance levels. The most recent round of infrastructure upgrades, November 2005, increases the total number of servers to 13 and provides capacity to receive up to 4000 submissions a day. Coupled with increasing the number of servers in June 2005, a SSL Accelerator and a high capacity Storage Area Network (SAN) device were installed to better handle site traffic and increased storage volumes. In addition, the Grants.gov site has been segmented across the various servers to ensure adequate capacity is available for submissions, downloads and status checking. Extensive examination of site usage patterns and volumes iden
In the past two years, Grants.gov has substantially increased its capacity to handle submissions from an initial 500 submissions a day to 4,000 submissions a day. Grant.gov’s Apply functionality was launched Oct. 31, 2003, with four servers; recent infrastructure upgrades carried out in November 2005 have more than tripled the number of servers to 13. Grants.gov is committed to ensuring that it meets the needs of its customers. Towards this end, it is finalizing a long-term architecture plan that will incrementally scale up its architecture for increased capacity to keep several steps ahead of the surging usage of its system across the grantee community and the federal grant-making agencies. Grants.gov is scheduling its next infrastructure upgrade for Spring 2006, timing it just before it receives its heaviest application load of the fiscal year. Grants.gov is also working with the federal grant-making agencies to stagger submission deadlines to avoid overwhelming system usage on any g
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