As some might know from my procurement of hell and outright disdain at time times for sites that simply can't figure out that how the web works, that there site goes down so many times like a cheap html junkie.
The excuse I have heard over the web was there was a contract internet backend vendor that was down. I was beginning to wonder if the local snoozemedia (sorry, the local name I have applied because for some reason or another, they simply always seem to be asleep at the switch!) simply could not find a good information technology person who knew how to right decent contracts to make sure their site was hosted at a decent provider and was up?
Have any of their web editors, IT or whomever is in charge of their CMS (for those who may not know, it is called content management systems with a template on the front that controls how a website looks, acts and does things.) contract does not seem to understand what SLA or service level agreement is?
This means, if the site goes down, does it have some serious penalty clauses or ways to switch to a computer system outside of the core development pod that the site is hosted on. IN todays world, there is no excuse for a site being down, when web systems and cloud systems are so cheap!
Even when Amazon's EC2 and other cloud providers went down about six months ago that hosted every thing from your daily backup provider, ISP web hosters, Netflix and possibly web ad companies? This type of web disconnection for no decent or apparent reason should not tolerated by the owners of our local paper. Just as Amazon was villified for it's system being down.
And Amazon is a Seattle Based corporation with hands-across the world reach, so this tells you what a lot of people think about web providers in almost 2012. Why would they be down?
