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Interruption to service

Alex Gubbay Alex Gubbay | 09:27 UK time, Thursday, 23 October 2008

A quick blog to apologise for the interruption to the service on the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Sport website last night.

Our editorial team were unable to publish any updates to the main pages of the website from about 18:50 until after 23:00 - this affected News and other parts of the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ website as well.
It appears to have been caused by damage to the links between our London buildings, which meant we lost network connectivity between our publishing systems and the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ web servers.

On a busy night of Champions League football, this meant we were unable to bring you our normal live text commentary and photos, other football scores and statistics updates, or reports and quotes as soon as the games finished.

Which was just as frustrating for us as it obviously was for all of you unable to get any updates or information.

We hope normal service has now been resumed, but our technical teams will continue to investigate and work on ensuring that is the case.

[Update 1133 BST, 23/10/08: ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ News' blog on the interruption]

Comments

  • Comment number 1.

    Why have there not been any entries on this blog for a month anyway?

  • Comment number 2.

    SaintStatto - I'll answer that one. To an extent, content on the SEB is seasonal and certainly dependent on what events are coming up. But I accept that it's been a quiet spell - apologies for that.

    The good news is that we do have a range of blogs pencilled in for the coming weeks, including a Roger Mosey blog on the NFL game at Wembley, which is being prepared as I write.

    So keep watching this space.

  • Comment number 3.

    Alex, is there any chance of starting up a regular tennis blog?

  • Comment number 4.

    At the risk of hijacking Alex G's blog, yes there is a chance but no firm plans are in place at this stage. Not ruling it out though.

  • Comment number 5.

    At the risk of this turning into a Q+A session - with F1 coming back to the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳, is there going to be a Motorsport blog?

    Also regarding last night - I think some of the comments you rec'd on 606 were harsh & quite unfair - it's a shame that the system broke, but let's hope it doesn't happen again.

  • Comment number 6.

    Alex T: Thought we had you in Columbia Saturday night. Hope the Tigers go on and win the "west" now. Good luck!

  • Comment number 7.

    Just a general question, but who do you become an blogger on the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ website? I envy you guys so much, it's like a dream job of mine!

  • Comment number 8.

    At the risk of turning this into a question and answer session but as ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ editors are the Masters of the Universe elect - What is the meaning of life?


  • Comment number 9.

    Well, I was able to follow scores and text on Sky.com . . . . . . .
    So still got the info I wanted.

    Not quite the same though. Miss the coments, but the main aim is to know what's happening with the footie . . . . and that I did.

  • Comment number 10.

    Answer to James Orient: I'd imagine mastering basic English is a starting point.

    (Sorry - cheap shot!!)

  • Comment number 11.

    Answer to Venners77 - Everyone make mistakes! I think it's clear to see that I meant what, not 'who'.

  • Comment number 12.

    #2

    oooh goodie! a blog on NFL by someone with limited knowledge full of Cliques!
    unless it's Tim then your blogger will get a hard time as quite a lot of people here know the game inside-out.

    i can hear the abuse now!

  • Comment number 13.

    that brings a point! is it going to be at all possible to have a regular American Football blog on a Tuesday (after Sunday and Monday night fixtures) like is done with other sports?

  • Comment number 14.

    James-Orient, without knowing Venners77 at all, I don't think he was being serious.

    After all, he does admit to it being a cheap shot in his brackets.

    Just what we brits sometimes use for humour - it doesn't translate too well among strangers especially on the web.

  • Comment number 15.

    I think it would have been a good idea if the problem had been highlighted last night. It was very frustrating being unable to see the information and having no explanation for the problems.

  • Comment number 16.

    So you say that the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳'s links were broken from 19:00 untill 23:00?
    Erm..this means that your technicans were not working that good then?
    It was a pretty poor excuse from the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ to be honest.
    I had to rely on Skysports.com to help me find the score.
    That surely would not be good for the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ is it?

  • Comment number 17.

    Please overload Tim Vickery with work, his pieces on South America are always excellent and I know a fair bit about the continent myself. A model of what the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ should be about is Mr Vickery - I spent a long time in South America and I was constantly engaged in conversations with people full of respect for the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ who used it as their main independent news source when they couldn't rely on their own government news sources for the truth, it actually was one of the main things that made me proud to be British during some otherwise humbling experiences (even Yanks rely on it!).
    Cheers.

  • Comment number 18.

    Hey ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ - a blip is fine. Your Football website is the very best by a country mile. I look at it 5 or 6 times a day and you are second to none. Thank you all very much for a brilliant and fully informative site. Myself and a million others would be lost without you. I just wonder where the money comes from to maintain such a great website. Long may you run.

  • Comment number 19.

    I hadn't noticed. The website seemed as good as it usually is.

  • Comment number 20.

    Jordan D - I can confirm that we will be launching an F1 blog next year. Our main writer will be Andrew Benson but there are likely to be other contributors.

    kwiniaskagolfer - Indeed and thanks for rallying behind LSU. I'm not that confident this year. We'll need to beat Georgia, Bama and avenge Florida to get to the title game. That's tough, tough, tough.

    James-Orient - With very few exceptions (Gavin Strachan etc) you need to be ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ staff to write on our blogs (anyone can comment obviously). If you want to start your own debates, you are more than welcome to do so on our 606 website:



    jamminben13 - Still working on that. I'll give you an answer when I have it. ;)

    oke2008 - There are no current plans to have a dedicated American Football blog, but our NFL experts Tim Love and Martin Gough will continue to debate on 606 (see link above).

    ArgentinaBlade - I'll pass on your message. Thanks.

    And thanks for all the comments. It's clear that there is lots of interest in our blogs - how they work, what is coming up etc. and I'm very happy to answer your questions.

    I already run a feedback thread on 606 (/dna/606/A41681937%29 and will look to do the same for blogs on my blog when I get back from leave in a few weeks.

    Then we can have these conversations away from Alex Gubbay's blog!

    Cheers all.

    Alex

  • Comment number 21.

    This comment was removed because the moderators found it broke the house rules. Explain.

  • Comment number 22.

    It seems your Championship Live Scores service isn't working tonight either (28/10/2008)

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