Comments on: Amanda Fritz’ website is on the fritz

By: no one in particular

no one in particular — Mon, 01 May 2006 17:59:33 +0000

Yeah, redundancy can be had, but it’s expensive. Do you really think that’s the smartest way for her to spend her limited campaign money?

By: Norm!

Norm! — Mon, 01 May 2006 13:45:30 +0000

The site is up. I don’t know if it looks any different than before last night’s outage.

I’m sorry, Russ, but I really don’t think a short website outage is cause to say Fritz is unsuitable for City Council. I think wasting millions on a Water Bureau billing software, a bad aerial tram deal, and a poorly written VoE cash give away are more significant signs of incompetence.

The Internet is only one small part of life. Maybe you should get off the computer once in a while.

By: Betsy

Betsy — Mon, 01 May 2006 08:31:41 +0000

All understood – for a commercial entity, that is.

I think you’re being unduly harsh here…

By: Russ

Russ — Mon, 01 May 2006 03:31:33 +0000

Amanda Fritz should have worked out a strategy with her techs.

Monitoring by site host- and have someone from hosting service available 24/7, even on pretty April evenings.

Redundant backup. Many hosting svcs offer this.

Worst-case scenario- webhost ought to offer customized “we’re working on it” page. But right now since you get page not found could lead some visitors into thinking they may have typed the wrong address….

First impressions…

By: Betsy

Betsy — Mon, 01 May 2006 03:15:28 +0000

Yeah, I really wouldn’t blame her or draw any larger conclusions from this.

Everyone has outages; shit happens.

By: amy

amy — Mon, 01 May 2006 02:39:02 +0000

The woman who runs Amanda’s site also runs Oregonmediainsiders.com, and that’s down too. Looks like it’s a problem that outside of Amanda’s immediate control