{"id":20007,"date":"2013-08-02T16:12:43","date_gmt":"2013-08-02T20:12:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=20007"},"modified":"2013-08-02T22:28:37","modified_gmt":"2013-08-03T02:28:37","slug":"where-was-i-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/where-was-i-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Where was I today?"},"content":{"rendered":"

My hosting merchant had a \u201cmassive outage<\/a>\u201d:<\/p>\n

Bluehost is down. The web hosting company started experiencing technical problems last night, following some botched maintenance. Thousands of sites are down with it and Twitter is ablaze with bloggers from all corners of the world moaning about the outage and threatening to dump Bluehost for good.<\/p>\n

[\u2026.]<\/p>\n

The direct cost of the outage is huge. With thousands of clients complaining about lost revenue, it is safe to assume that millions are lost by the hour. Even when the \u201cissue\u201d, which is a euphemism for \u201ccock-up of epic proportions\u201d is resolved, there will be hell to pay. The damage to Bluehost\u2019s already shaken reputation will be a lot harder to fix.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The same datacentre also runs HostMonster,\u00a0JustHost and FastDomain, affecting even more sites at even greater cost.<\/p>\n

Endurance International<\/a>, the owning company – ironically, it had the sense to host its site elsewhere – is giving 30 minute status updates<\/a>; from my numerous sleepless nights working on such problems, I’m painfully aware of how disconnected from reality they probably are.<\/p>\n

Capitalism being what it is, rivals have already set up is your website down <\/em><\/a>with “BLUEHOSTDOWN” discount coupons, to entice website owners to switch.<\/p>\n

The positive way to look at this is that, for an entire day, I haven\u2019t been able to write anything that could get me sued.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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