Greg Linden had a few words to say about the amount of downtime some big online companies get. Here’s an excerpt of what he had to say;

Recently, a lot of popular websites seem to be having long planned and unplanned downtimes.

Google’s Blogger has been taking many planned and unplanned outages over the last few weeks. Yahoo My Web just announced they’re going down “for a few hours.” Salesforce.com just had multiple outages, including one that lasted almost a day. Gap decided to close Gap.com, OldNavy.com, and BananaRepublic.com for over two weeks. Bloglines took an outage instead of trying to switch to a new data center without any interruption of service. Technorati did something similar a year ago, but took a longer weekend outage for the move. And there are many, many other examples.

You can read his entire article on his blog.

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