Sooner or later, every site or application will fail. However the consequences depend not only on how the failure is managed but also on how it is communicated. Recently the web hosting company Media Temple and even Google have well illustrated how hard it is for modern connected organizations to respond quickly enough to system outages. Here’s a suggested crisis checklist and notes on the difficulties of always practicing it.

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We have gathered 13 of the most notable internet-related outages and incidents of 2007. Why 13? Though you usually can’t blame downtime on bad luck, we thought it was an appropriate number for a collection like this. Now on to the list! The Great Skype Outage Anyone using Skype will remember this one. Back in [...]

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So called “grid hosting” (or sometimes “utility computing”) is the latest buzzword in the Web hosting industry. It isn’t a new concept, grid computing has been around for quite some time, but has been repackaged for the Web hosting market. However, recent stability problems have raised the question if the technology is mature enough for [...]

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