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Our website now holds up when everyone checks in at once
A load test on 16 October 2026 exposed a weak spot. We fixed it the same day and measured the result openly.
16 October 2026New on nammert.comNAMMERT Assekuradeur GmbH
On 16 October 2026 we put our own website under load. A test machine requested more and more pages at the same time, step by step, mixing the home page, the quote calculator and 250 randomly chosen subpages, and recorded how long each answer took and how many never arrived. Any step above three seconds or two percent failures stops the test automatically.
The morning result was not good. Up to about 30 simultaneous requests everything ran smoothly, with 95 out of 100 pages arriving in under 0.6 seconds. From 80 simultaneous requests the first answers went missing, and at 100 almost a third failed. The reason: every page was rebuilt from scratch on every visit, even when nothing had changed since the previous visitor.
We changed that the same day. Finished pages are now kept for five minutes and served instantly during that time. Every update to the website starts with an empty store, so a new warning or a corrected text shows up straight away. Anything you type in and send, forms, calculated quotes and damage reports, never goes through the store.
The second test in the afternoon ran through the same steps. Up to 200 simultaneous requests there was not a single failure, 95 out of 100 pages arrived in under 1.2 seconds, and a single request is answered in about 0.1 seconds. Only at 260 simultaneous requests did 1.4 percent get lost. Whether that was the server or the test machine's own line could not be separated.
Why this matters for boat owners: the rush never comes evenly. It comes when a gale sweeps through the Solent, the Baltic or the Balearics and many owners check, within the same hour, what has been forecast, how to report damage and which number to call. That is exactly when a website must not fail. It affects every type of boat alike, sailing yacht, motor cruiser, RIB or narrowboat, because the website does not care what you own.
A fast website changes nothing about the duty itself. Almost every marine policy asks you to report damage promptly, and that never depends on a website: a phone call to +49 3375 566 75 05, an email or a letter does the job. A page that will not load is no reason to wait. It should not become one either, and that is what this test was for.
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Common questions
Can I rely on the website being reachable during a storm?
It now copes with far more visitors at once than before, measured up to 200 simultaneous requests without a failure. That is not a guarantee, which is why reporting by phone or email always works just as well.
Will the store show me outdated information?
At most five minutes old, and none at all after an update to the website. Calculators, forms and the damage report always run on the current state.
Do I have to report damage through the website?
No. A damage report is not tied to any particular channel. A call, an email or a letter is enough, what matters is that it reaches the insurer promptly.
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