Web infrastructure doesn’t cope any better during heavy snow fall
We expect our roads to be bad during snow fall. England is a temperate country and it’s not very easy to provision enough snow gear during spells of bad weather.
Schools and offices often close and this really does help to protect life.
So why do the schools web-sites say “Service unavailable” and “Server too busy”? There was plenty of warning about this, even if the snow fall was during a Sunday. Did no-one think reprovisioning bandwidth or balancing the server was necessary?
Posted: February 2nd, 2009 under 42.