[Resolved]  Irctc — irctc very slow

IRCTC Site is pathetically slow. Please take some action for sake of people.

irctc is so slow site they made site for public convenience but agent getting benifit of it ...how.?...think if we cannot book ticket bcoz of slow site working then ticket will available for agent...this conspricy against public...i hate thais.

IRCTC Server is pathetically down, I booked my ticket last month but did not take printout at that time.

Now my travel date is nearing but i am unable to reach to book history page and retrieve my booked tickets most of the time it says session expired/server not responding page.

Its my fault that I relied on the irctc server. I think somebody in middle is pocketing internet booking charges Rs 20 instead of investing in server maintenance /upgrading it.

-vijay

Yes Irctc has become too slow, it was not always like this, ...i booked a ticked on Friday 13th, 2012...it took me 90 minutes to book 1 ticket, whereas it used to take 10 minutes at the most...twice it did not accept payment via citibank...finally had to use amex...today 15.1.12 it took 45 minutes to book 1 ticket...the number of complaints against irctc website are huge...wonder if they are reading it at all ?? It is the number E com site in the country and they can't let people down like this...on today's world who has the time to wait 45 minutes to book 1 ticket...its like the old days now, when one stood in long lines at Rail Reservation Centre. Totally frustating...Ashish

Yes IRCTC is now very slow, we should say thanks to the new ministry for the current state of the website. I am trying to book a ticket for the last 5 hrs, let alone book a ticket I am unable to login itself. If the service provider can't provide a good service then I suggest that we stop it. The funny part is I am wrong in a co-corporate network without any success in login but my travel agent was able to book a ticket for me with out any issue. I guess that is what we call magic...or back door entry.--- not sure..

Now some other private / commercial sites are offering booking railway tickets, so may be some looters making irctc site slow and helping private website for money

It totally agree with vinaythak. It was not that slow 2-3 years back. Again its a matter of high level corruption.

yeah it's pathetic now, forget about booking, it's very difficult to see the status of your booking and train schedule

Sir,
IRCTC site is too slow. We are unable to book tickets. I have a doubt that it may be deliberate. Pl do something.
Sushil

Actually.. Now IRCTC people should create two parts of the server. specially to distribute processing.
1st server that will handle all the requests coming from customer regarding train inquiry, time table etc. Means when you search for trains between two stations, it will be handled within the first server.

2. once passenger decides his train, and now he want to purchase his ticket, all payment related transaction and seat availability should be handled on the 2nd server.
This is the same processing like you search train in any agent website..Private agent websites allows you to search trains very quickly any time. when you click on "Book" button then and then only it goes to the agent website.
This way it should make life easier for both type of people, 1. who want to see the train timings and 2. who actually want to book tickets.

Till sometime last year it wasn't too difficult to book a ticket on this site. But then it started getting annoying. I moved to other sites like cleartrip or makemytrip and what a difference that made! I was able to book onward and return in one go, unlike the irctc where you had to do these separately. Of late booking through these sites have also become impossible because the irctc site is SO bad. You cannot even check availability because the site does not respond. And now you also need to register with irctc if one is to book a rail ticket through cleartrip or makemytrip. I spent the whole day today trying to do just that! And I did not succeed. Instead I could have gone to the railway station and booked it with less headaches and without all this tension and anger! They better do something to really speed up the site or just close it down. I dont think I will ever try this site again. No point getting your blood pressure go soaring through the roof!

this is to inform you that internet booking net is very slow and specialy in the morning and for tatkal tickets it never open the site till 8.20am and when the site opens then tatkal serveces shows full no room or closed it is like fooling people by keeping this net services for tatkal booking and one thing that the same day tatkal ticket booked through agents you get confirmed ticket. it is surprising for this act so is their a special quota for the on line agents please clerify

it is getting slower by the day.. It is extremely difficult to use this site. It is worst during morning hours due to Tatkal booking but now all days it is very very slow.. Anyone listening and have any plan to fix it? There are sites with exponentially higher number o[censored]sers and content like Facebook but works very well. Being IT hub of the world why can't we fix this problem ...Mr. Railway minister are you listening?

I never saw such a slow site like IRCTC...Deluge of complaints notwithstanding, I don't understand why IRCTC is not taking actions in improving its performance...Go and die IRCTC...I hate that stupid site.

This is one of the biggest mode of travelling in India. Around 95% of the travel done through Rail and railway is making billions out of it. We can not expect these kind of pathetic railway services when you find yourself to be fooled at the time of booking the ticket, specially in morning hours when you are in urgent need of TATKAL ticket. In my opinion Indian Railway admin take bribe from agents and this is the only reason they get the ticket confirmed even if it is TATKAL. If IRCTC can not deliver optimum services they must shut down this site.

Sure a ticket booking experience with irctc during the morning tatkal hours are a disaster...

this site is for the common man but he is the one with the least profit...

Why is the railways not maintaing or trying to tweek the site for accomodating the traffic?If this trend goes on it would crash in a couple of months and then the railways will think about a solution and have to shed double the money if the situation was bought under control just by maintenance.I think Indian public sectors need to be privatised to enjoy the benefits from the huge budget allocated.

I dont know whether the site admin is taking any action on the above listed grieavance..

Imagine how easy it woud be if the site was 70 % Ok.

IRCTC has become unusable even in normal hours (Not only 8AM to 9AM). It takes anywhere between 2-3 hours at say even 4PM IST...!!!
I am sure there is a way to address this issue. It is not a technical problem and if it is it can definitely be addressed...

Please look in to this urgently ... Imagine how much national time is wasted in bookign tickets... through IRCTC.

This site used to be a site which we used to talk about lean sites. Now post Lalu's turn as railways minister, the site is ebing manipulated . Either it says not available or it says unavailable or it is very slow. Now it takes 2 hours to somehow book a ticket . Many incidents when i got everything done, bank debits happen and then the site becomes unresponsive. At the same time, when an agent is approached they are able to book tickets . This is public curruption and nothing else

What the fcuk ? Booking ticket online on IRCTC is a NIGHTMARE. COMPLETE WASTE OF TIME. FCUK U IRCTC and FCUK MAMTA. Jai Hind.