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Waitformusic.be

Like 10 million other Belgian people, it seemed, I tried to get me some tickets for the upcoming concert of U2 in Brussels, next June. All I got in return from the goformusic.be site, where the tickets could be ordered, was a HTTP 503 error (temporary overloading of the server). I would suspect they would have taken measures so that the foreseen avalanche of requests could be handled, but apparently, this is too much asked from any IT department in Belgium, where server infrastructure is held together by strings and duct tape. What's the friggin' point of offering a online ticketing 'service' when it even can't handle the load of the work it's supposed to do. Shame.