Hosting and being in the public eye...
Oh dear - when someone gets it wrong it's all point and shout time. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/10/11/bbc_news_website_down/
The BBC news web site had a few technical issues with it's main front page yesterday, other links and pages worked. As we're all fascinated by other peoples misfortune (admit it you are... we've all watch people getting hurt/humiliated/crashed on You've Been Framed!) it's natural to dig about a bit and find out what's been going on with the BBC news site. In addition i have an interest in this as we host some big sites too and use Akamai like the BBC.
Netcraft has some good information about what really happened with that site yesterday. They also have some great tools, data and history about the internet - did you know that the internet grew by 7.6million websites last month! http://news.netcraft.com/
Useful info Dan - thanks
Myspace has a lot to answer for - no doubt the majority of those 7.6 million websites are complete crap :-(
Posted by: James H | October 12, 2007 at 12:19 PM
Useful info Dan - thanks
Myspace has a lot to answer for - no doubt the majority of those 7.6 million websites are complete crap :-(
Posted by: James H | October 12, 2007 at 12:19 PM
totally - "MySpace, Microsoft Live.com, and Google's Blogger each gained over 1 million sites this month."
Posted by: Dan Germain | October 12, 2007 at 02:11 PM
The Register does a good job of kicking people when they are "down". FastHosts are getting a regular flaming from them at the moment for some POP outages and password issues.
As you say, being in the public eye... this is the price you pay for it.
Posted by: Roland | October 19, 2007 at 09:36 AM