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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From Newsgroup: uk.tech.digital-tv

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

Fake news kills!

I may be contacted via the contact address given on my website: www.macfh.co.uk
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From Newsgroup: uk.tech.digital-tv

On 2025-06-06 02:40, Java Jive 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.
--

Fake news kills!

I may be contacted via the contact address given on my website: www.macfh.co.uk

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From Newsgroup: uk.tech.digital-tv

On 06/06/2025 03:01, Java Jive wrote:

On 2025-06-06 02:40, Java Jive 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 ?
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From Newsgroup: uk.tech.digital-tv

On 2025-06-06 10:47, Mark Carver wrote:

On 06/06/2025 03:01, Java Jive wrote:

On 2025-06-06 02:40, Java Jive 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 ?

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.
--

Fake news kills!

I may be contacted via the contact address given on my website: www.macfh.co.uk

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From Newsgroup: uk.tech.digital-tv

On 06/06/2025 10:47 AM, Mark Carver wrote:

On 06/06/2025 03:01, Java Jive wrote:

On 2025-06-06 02:40, Java Jive wrote:

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

5 am on a Sunday?

Surely there are fewer likely users then than there might be between
02:00 and 03:00 during the rest of the week?
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