From Newsgroup: uk.tech.digital-tv

On Fri, 6 Jun 2025 10:47:48 +0100, Mark Carver <mark@invalid.com> wrote:

Can't load the BBC website or even ping it in the early hours.a Other
internet connections seem fine.a Anyone else seeing this?

Back up at 0300hrs.

Call me old fashioned, but if you had to take a widely used and popular website down for 20-30 mins to perform some maintenance, what time would
you select to perform the task to minimise the number of people affected ?

Call me old fashioned, but why can it not be done in without any downtime
at all these days?
It's not 2am all over the world either, and as they claim to be a global organisation...
I'd guess it was a major fault or a f*ck-up.
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From Newsgroup: uk.tech.digital-tv

On Fri, 6 Jun 2025 10:54:19 +0100, Java Jive <java@evij.com.invalid> wrote:

Yes, that does seem to have been it, but usually there is some sort of message displayed, not an endless wait that neither displays the
webpage, or a 'site down' alternative, but neither gives a 404.

If everything's down or there's a connectivity problem, how is
anything going to serve any content at all?
Even a 404 needs a working server and network, as does everything else.
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