Scary stuff - entire BBC website down.

[killer]

http://www.wirefresh.com/bbc-website-is ... nt-page-1/

Someone has taken out the whole site. As the BBC is arguably the world's only independent news source (it isn't paid for by adverts) I find it very scary.

[killer]

Phew, it is back ... thank heavens! We can't live without Auntie Beeb for long, wherever you are in the world.
I thought the world must be ending.

Their website, in stoical manner doesn't mention it yet.

[poshgeordie]

Good Old El Reg has this article: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/03/30 ... explained/

To Quote:

The true explanation about what really happened was a [much more] pedestrian one, however.

"Our systems are designed to be sufficiently resilient (multiple systems, and multiple data centres) to make an outage like this extremely unlikely," wrote the Beeb's Richard Cooper in a wrongly date-stamped blog post this morning. "However, I'm afraid that last night we suffered multiple failures, with the result that the whole site went down.

"Enough of the systems were restored to bring BBC Online pretty well back to normal by 23:45, and we were fully resilient again by 04:00 this morning.

"For the more technically minded, this was a failure in the systems that perform two functions.

"The first is the aggregation of network traffic from the BBC's hosting centres to the internet. The second is the announcement of 'routes' onto the internet that allows BBC Online to be 'found.' With both of these having failed, we really were down!"

[Nohbody]

Here is the BBC's take on their outage. The site only crashed for an hour.

Really, "DON'T PANIC" should be put in larger letters at the top of every browser window, even those set for full screen, maybe sharing space with a reminder about Hanlon's Razor.

[rkawakami]

Really, "DON'T PANIC" should be put in larger letters at the top of every browser window... <snip>

If I were in charge of the web site I'd put "So long, and thanks for all the fish." .