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Server strained? Push readers to blogs instead

Posted by Martin Stabe on 4 January 2008 at 12:04
Tags: Times Online

Times Online seemed to be experiencing a heavy load on its servers earlier this morning. But it also showed off an interesting solution to dealing with temporary downtime: Direct readers to an unaffected corner of the site — such as your blogs.

That’s what Times Online’s error message was doing this morning, when readers trying to reach its site saw an error message providing links to its blogs, which are hosted separately from the rest of the site on Six Apart’s Typepad service.

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Tags: Times Online

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1. Martin Stabe&hellip |  4 January 2008 at 12:31pm

   [IMG Fleet Street 2.0]Server strained? Push readers to blogs insteadFriday, 4 January 2008, 12:04 (30 minutes ago) Times Online seemed to be experiencing a heavy load on its servers earlier this morning. But it also showed off an interesting solution to dealing with temporary downtime: Direct readers to an unaffected

2. Tom Whitwell |  4 January 2008 at 7:15pm

   1) I really must update that list…
   2) I should include The Times Health Club http://www.timeshealth.co.uk which laumches tomorrow (and also lives on a separate server)

3. Martin Belam |  5 January 2008 at 1:53pm

   That is a very neat solution - but possibly they could also consider being able to serve a mirror of their whole site from someone like Akamai during downtime or emergencies. I guess there is a cost/benefit analysis to be done on how much revenue and brand loyalty they lose by being offline, and how much it would cost to go down the CDN route.

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