travis' brain dump

so, does anyone else but me notice that myspace seems to be down about 20%-25% of the overall day on most days?

it’s not like my life depends on the site or anything, I just find it funny that these guys can’t keep their servers up for any length of time. If its not the main site, its the blog site, if its not the blog site its the mail site… i mean c`mon people. shouldn’t this be a lesson to you that Windows just can’t handle the load or that your code sucks?!

I think about every other day I log in and see a message like the following:

Latest Update: 08:59AM PST, Friday, July 28th.
hiya – your accounts are not deleted. we’re just moving some databases around to a new data center. we’re workin on things right now.

ok… so if its not a power outage or moving equipment its ‘ we’re doing some maintenance ‘

i know what some of you are thinking… “it’s a free service, don’t complain” but you have to understand it from my point of view. if that was my network or my servers and my downtime was anything remotely close to those guys… i’d be out of a job. I’d be out the door on my rear end for sure. so just what is the thinking over there one must ask? does the network operations guy not have any authority to come out and say ‘ this is not working folks, we need a new strategy to increase stability ‘ or do they like working all odd hours of the night because their stuff breaks constantly.

if I were myspace, i’d be embarassed.