This is a common problem faced by employees and employers that slow loading of EPFO websites. These EPF sites are really troubling their users during some emergency cases like EPF challan payment and downloading PF passbooks. Here we are going to discuss about why EPFO site not working and at what time EPFO websites can’t able to handle visitors traffic.
Have you ever faced a situation like this when you use sites like facebook or youtube. There are some billions of user will use those sites at a same time, but we never heard a single word that facebook site is not loading, similarly in case of youtube also. But most of our EPFO websites servers are always slow or some times they don’t work also. This is happening from so many days.
Recently in Jan 2017, Employee Provident Fund Organization introduced new unified PF portals, they are very useful to the employees, but the page loading speed of these sites is really low. So EPFO has to take some measures to solve this issue.
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Why EPFO Site Not Working
The main reason behind why EPFO site not working is, during office hours i.e from 9 am to 5 pm majority of the employees and employers will use these sites for several works like to activate their uan numbers, to generate uan numbers, to upload ECR files, to update PF KYC details, to approve employees PF KYC details and to make PF contribution payments etc.
When the visitors traffic is very high in real time then automatically these sites are getting slow and troubling their users. EPFO is not a small organization so we don’t expect these kind of problems from EPFO sites. So the main reason behind why EPFO site is not working is number of visitors.
When Will EPFO Site Don’t Work Properly
Generally every employer need to make EPF contribution payment by 15th of every month. So by this time they have to prepare employees ECR statements ( Electronic Challan Cum Return Statement). But due to salary disbursements and other reasons most of the employers will don’t make payment till last date. So on last two days of EPF payment i.e 14th and 15th every month most of the employers will try to open EPFO sites, which results slow down of EPFO severs.
When Will EPFO Sites Work Well
Except in dates like 14th and 15th of every month, remaining time they are working well, but we don’t want this kind of slowdown also. Because these are most crucial dates to make EPF contributions other wise we have to pay late fee.
So as per my suggestion always try to make EPF payments by 13th of every month, if you still can’t able to finish it by 13th then you have to it after 6 pm. During night times EPFO sites work well because visitors traffic is less at this time. Do share your experiences and opinions on why EPFO site not working.
Due to an urgency, i am try to withdraw some amount from my PF a/c. And I am trying this since last one week. I have tried at different times, even after 1am / 3am , working Days / weekends. The website is always down. And through UMANG app, it is taking me to the last step i.e. Getting Aadhaar authentication (with an OTP), after submitting the OTP, it shows a green flag written “Success” and in no time a message pops up saying “Departmental Servers are currently experiencing Heavy Load. Please try again after sometime”. What is mistake of a poor employee, who can’t get his own share of fund at the time of a crisis. I am in soup since 1 week.
Sir I am experiencing the exact same issue.
What about now? Were you able to register the claim? If so please advise to me as well.
still the same issue is happening, very worst site. don’t know how to withdraw the pf
this is too much, EPFO Site is very worst site for ever, this site is not working so many days
Site is not working all the time https://unifiedportal-mem.epfindia.gov.in/memberinterface/
Why don’t EPFO increasing its server configuration.
Worst worst worst site. Not able to do anything except login in loop. Always 503 error. Always on maintainence still can’t maintain.
agreed
Someone died while we tried to log in… this is very disturbing and maintenance of the site.. cheeeee
The site is pathetic…it is not true that the site is inaccessible or slow on 14-15 of every month. While I am writing this I am trying to open the portal number of times since morning and it has not opened even a single time.
Same here . Worst site ever.
India can only dream of becoming a developed country. With services like these India will forever remain a third world sh*thole.
Digital india- but still the people working in govt offices are pathetic.
It’s a horrible experience accessing the UAN website. Always slow and cannot continue to do anything .. Infra team or outsourced company that owns this website should be penalized or if the website not working.
very horrible site that i have ever seen
It is terrible to access the website.
Should we rob the bank if we can’t withdraw our money?
My dear government, you should also pay attention to this issue.
Very luck if you are able to login https://unifiedportal-mem.epfindia.gov.in/memberinterface/
Am not suppose to say more than this.
the name of government Site itself is sufficient to know their performance
everyone knows this URL, there is no rocket science behind posting this URL.
it’s a hopeless website. I am surprised in this age of cloud computing, they are still using the age old physical equipment for server capacity and hosting. Load can be handled easily with elastic compute capabilities in the cloud. It’s agonising to see we are not able to access the portal for the past 1 week or more.
EPFO web admins do something to fix it.
very true:
i feel that website like facebook and instata has more traffic then this, why only this is slow…… because it an govt portal (lol how can i forget this)
This is not acceptable . whenever this is opened it is working .
It must be opened properly . why this department is working on this ?
If Site is down then citizens should not get the deadline for adding nomination for PF by 31 Dec 2021.
This is the stupid things by giving deadline and keeping site for down at the same time.
this Site work exactly like Government PF office…
Does EPFO still work in 2G?
It doesn’t work properly with low-speed internet connection.
it does n’t work in high speed internet connection also brother
it dosent even deserves 2G
i am all fed up with this slow site
it is just loading and loading
One of the worst website, lot of bugs are there in the every page, some time it loads the page or there will be error, really frustrating
The EPFO site https://unifiedportal-mem.epfindia.gov.in/memberinterface/ is always down.
Only sometimes, if you are lucky enough, it works. The chances are only 10% that the site will be up when you login.
I Heard there’s been a scam of 200cr in pf by the employee s..
Means from the pf office employees have transferred 200cr from their account
We are now in digital word and considering the number of users, why EPFO Infra team not recommending the sufficient resources/bandwidth/RAM/Processors etc.
This is worst experience; I do not think there is constraints of Money or restriction from government for not to allocate more resources to EPFO site.
Utilize the public money efficiently and provide the services efficiently.
What is E03 error? What is the solution?
sir what is pay roll……?explain it
Hi Ramu,
Simply payroll means salary processing which includes salary statement preparation, salary disbursement, making statutory compliance like PF, ESI, bonus etc..