C|Net is Down

[bryant]

With a little message: "CNET is currently down, as we switch to a new server-hosting company and facility. We chose this U.S. holiday weekend, beginning the evening of July 5 and continuing through July 7, to minimize the inconvenience to you. We will be back in service, providing the trusted technology advice and information you count on, starting Monday, July 8. Thank you for your patience."

That weirds me out. A one-weekend move of their entire site, instead of staging it with minimal downtime? Were they rushed into this somehow? Were they colocated at a Worldcom facility?

Or, more likely, was it just cheaper this way? Times change.

Comments

[foxmagic.livejournal.com]

Wow. Considering that any lost ad revenue is lost revenue, I have to guess that they were forced into this.

I agree that it really doesn't make a whole lot of sense, unless their back was really up against a wall. There's no reason why they couldn't have run servers at the new and old locations for a while, and pushed content to both places until the switchover. This ain't rocket science! They could have easily done it seamlessly.

Not that I ever use CNET for anything anyway. ;-)

Hey Bryant

[corvuscrx.livejournal.com]

This is totally unrelated to anything else but I just ran across you from looking up Shadowfist on the interests. :)

Good to see you here.

Andrew
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