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Out(r)age!
Two of the Web sites I use every single day, Blogger and Bloglines, have gotten into a nasty habit of scheduling outages lately.
Having one of those sites stop working and having no explanation or reason is certainly frustrating, but setting a time and day when things won’t work only takes the sting off of it a bit. Blogger’s recent scheduled outages have been scheduled during the day, which means tens of thousands (if not hundreds of thousands) of blog publishers won’t be able to update their sites or edit anything starting at 6 p.m. this evening.
With Bloglines, which has been making system improvements to increase response time, it just means not being able to quickly browse through my 50 or so RSS feeds, many of which don’t update daily anyway.
These are free sites with free services, but it’s 2006 and I really had faith that those 404 error and instances where Web sites just stop working would one day just stop happening. Am I the only one who feels that Web site outages are so 1998?
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By Brian
January 25, 2006 3:49 PM | Link to this
You said the magic word, FREE. You should expect outages, scheduled and unscheduled from any Free service. and don't expect the model and/or the company to last unless there is some revenue stream.
Web hosting is an expensive business. Maintaining networks and servers with NO downtime is an expensive practice.
Have you ever had to reboot your computer? That would be an outage. Try not rebooting your computer when thousands of people are accessing it per hour.
Downtime is essential, but can be minimized and pushed to wee hours when you have properly paid and caffeinated technicians.