It could happen to any of us. The FT website was nearly brought down in July when someone stole some routing equipment from the site hosts, but, though the site was slow and search was disabled for a few hours, the company had backup servers in New York that saved the day.
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The latest victim is the Independent, whose website was completely inaccessible from 10am yesterday until 7pm. It's not a good look for a major news site, and will also eat into those all important ABCe figures for the month. The general manager independent.co.uk, Bill Swanson, told me they still didn't know what caused the problem and didn't sound too impressed with the host, who should have provided a back up in Amsterdam.
Independent.co.uk relaunched in January and started releasing its ABCe data in May; it had 6.5 million unique users, rising to 7.2m in June and down to 6.6m in July.
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