Travel Web Site Downtime Problems
Written by Evan SchumanJune 22nd, 2007
As the summer vacation season has arrived, travel web sites are getting a serious workout. Perhaps a bit too serious a workout, according to one uptime monitoring service, which reports that one site had 2-and-a-half hours of downtime.
Although the survey looked at 16 major travel sites—including Orbitz, Travelocity, Yahoo and Priceline—Expedia was not among them. Why not? Expedia's system apparently didn't take kindly to being watched and blocked the nosey system inquiries from report conductor Pingdom.
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