Who's to blame for Microsoft MySpace's outage?
MS-Watch | at | by Mike
A power outage took Microsoft infrastructure poster child MySpace down this weekend. What happened to the companySQL Server backup/failover plans -- if they had any? Who's to blame when a Web site crashes? The site owner? The hoster? The supplier of the back-end software? The blame game doesn't seem to have started at least not publicly in the case of MySpace.com, the latest mega-Web site to go down.
MySpace is one of the largest sites on the Web. As of February 2006, there were more than 64 million registered MySpace users, with 260,000 new registered users signing up each day. The site was garnering 23 billion page views per month, according to Media Metrix data.