Posted on March 5th, 2008 by Raj Gajwani
Oprah’s website crashed on Monday when over 500,000 visitors tried to view her live webcast. As the Wall Street Journal puts it,
When will people learn? If you’re promoting something on your Web site – particularly something that stresses your tech equipment like an online video – make sure that you’re prepared to handle [...]
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Posted on January 18th, 2008 by Raj Gajwani
2007 was a bad year for “100% uptime”, and it looks like 2008 is off to a rocky start. Anyone offering web services knows Rackspace for their “fanatical support” and “100% uptime” promises. They’re well known for being the cream of the crop in managed server vendors (thanks partially to their ubiquitous [...]
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Posted on December 11th, 2007 by Raj Gajwani
Kudos to YouTube for creating a phenomenal consumer video site. It’s still quite surprising, though, that YouTube keeps going down for maintenance during prime viewing hours. Their current downtime (as of 10pm PST) appears to be less serious, but has still killed most administration functionality.
Google is reknowned for its network infrastructure, and there [...]
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Posted on November 27th, 2007 by Raj Gajwani
2007 is a turning point for “Cyber Monday” — the year this invented concept turned from obscure marketing gimmick to industry rallying cry. The best part is that customers seem to be playing along.
Every rose has its thorn, though… and this year, perhaps the most dramatic prick happened to Yahoo Stores. Yahoo Stores [...]
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Posted on November 13th, 2007 by Raj Gajwani
The blogosphere is abuzz over Rackspace’s major outage last night. Apparently this is the first major outage in many years for Rackspace, a data center provider famous for its promise of “100% uptime” and “fanatical support”. Lots of Internet services pay the Rackspace premium (typically 2x the cost of competitors) for that assurance.
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