Filed in archive Entertainment by Mateusz Berezecki 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.

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Response from: jack (08/07/09 4:12pm)

have never thought about it like that before. Thanks so much for the depth and understanding at which you covered the topic. it's a useful piece of information not only for me but for many others. have read a lot on the topic at different blogs and books (download mainly from http://www.picktorrent.com
but this piece really gives food for thought