Downtime incidents
Filed in archive Entertainment on December 28, 2008
Pingdom has a quite entertaining article about relative safety of online operations at data centers. My personal favorite?
In August, an update to SiteMeter's script (websites can have it included on their pages to get visitor statistics) started crashing popular blogs like Gawker, Lifehacker, Gizmodo, Valleywag and Problogger for Internet Explorer users. Presumably every single website using SiteMeter had this problem. This incident revealed how a third-party script can quite easily stop a whole site from working, which is a vulnerability that every site owner should keep in mind.
Read a full list here.
In August, an update to SiteMeter's script (websites can have it included on their pages to get visitor statistics) started crashing popular blogs like Gawker, Lifehacker, Gizmodo, Valleywag and Problogger for Internet Explorer users. Presumably every single website using SiteMeter had this problem. This incident revealed how a third-party script can quite easily stop a whole site from working, which is a vulnerability that every site owner should keep in mind.
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(08/07/09 4:12pm)
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but this piece really gives food for thought