Web News Outage: InformationWeek, CRN

May 13th, 2008 Stacey Schneider

Cruising my daily news feeds and just came across the fact that seemingly ALL CMP Media outlets, including the popular InformationWeek.com and CRN are down. At first the sites rendered a dreaded ‘500 error’:

500 The server encountered an unexpected condition which prevented it from fulfilling the request. - Please try back later…

The sites almost came back up, and now this is what we get:

The connection was reset

The connection to the server was reset while the page was loading.

* The site could be temporarily unavailable or too busy. Try again in a few
moments.
* If you are unable to load any pages, check your computer’s network
connection.
* If your computer or network is protected by a firewall or proxy, make sure
that Firefox is permitted to access the Web.

No official word on the reason for the outage, but combined with the slashdot outage two weeks ago I believe I am pretty sure more tech-readers than myself are getting fairly frazzled at their news habits being interrupted.

Not sure what they are using to monitor and manage their sites to keep their service levels high, but I could suggest perhaps its about time they check out Hyperic.

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