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RIAA Web Site Moved To Linux

Posted by kdawson on from the circle-the-wagons dept.

xseedit writes "The RIAA has moved their main Web site www.riaa.com from IIS on Win2003 to Apache 2.2.3 on Red Hat. It appears that the move did not go smoothly as it resulted in an 8-hour downtime starting yesterday around noon, according to Netcraft. And the RIAA is still showing a 'temporarily under construction' page. They also moved their DNS from the small company that had been hosting them for the past 4 years, Tomorrow's Solutions Today (TST Inc.), to Mindshift Technologies. One can only guess what happened here, but the move seems to have been sudden and unplanned. They still haven't moved the riaa.org, riaa.net, and musicunited.org domains — those are still pointing to the TST nameservers that no longer accept queries for those domains. TST Inc. deserves credit, however. They seem to have managed to host the RIAA quite successfully for the past 4 years. Will Mindshift do a better job hosting one of the most reviled, and therefore most attacked, Web sites in the world? I wonder if anybody at the RIAA or TST would care to comment on the reasons behind this sudden move. Could it be that the RIAA is being sued by its hosting provider? Or perhaps the sue-happy organizaiton is suing its provider?"

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  1. My guess... by spiffyman · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Could it be that the RIAA is being sued by its hosting provider? Or perhaps the sue-happy organizaiton is suing its provider? ... Or maybe they just wanted a more secure hosting platform located with a provider who has experience with member-oriented organizations. There's always that possibility.
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    So you can laugh all you want to...
  2. Uhh, okay. by DrEldarion · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I hate to sit here and be critical, but is this really "stuff that matters"? This is one of the most meaningless stories I've seen in ages on this site. After looking at the firehose and what doesn't get accepted, it amazes me that something this dumb can be posting material.

    1. Re:Uhh, okay. by jlarocco · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Or, you could take a somewhat more optimistic view, and say that even though the RIAA are IP trolls, even they don't think Linux infringes anything.

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      Maybe not
  3. Could it be? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Could it be that the RIAA is being sued by its hosting provider? Or perhaps the sue-happy organizaiton is suing its provider? Could it be the submitter of this article is simply engaging in random, mindless speculation?
  4. Re:Test before going live by totally+bogus+dude · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Well, they were also moving platform -- I don't know whether their old site was static HTML with only a few simple scripts or something more complicated, but that can throw a spanner in the works.

    Their site currently has a message saying they're launching a new site, so I think it wasn't a simple migration. Of course, stuffing up the launch of a new site on new servers takes a special kind of ineptitude all of its own.

    If you plan it right and execute it right it should go without any hiccups.

    Sure, but they're a bunch of lawyers so they wouldn't have done any of the technical planning, and they're moving to different web hosts which means neither host particularly cares: one is the ex-host which doesn't want to waste time and money on a customer they've already lost, and the other already has their money and a contract which says "you can fuck us over for 6 months because it's too expensive to go somewhere else until that point"; and each is blaming the other for the fuck up, as per standard operating procedure.

    I'm probably a bit jaded, but it's been a long time since I've received adequate customer service from any of our suppliers, much less good service; but I guess that's inevitable when the only real point of comparison you can make between companies before actually using them for a while is price.

  5. Re:Finally!! by jibjibjib · · Score: 2, Insightful

    What about the RIAA equalisation curve? That was one good thing the RIAA did.

  6. Re:first post by notnAP · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The journalism on /. is getting more and more questionable, to be sure.
    What gets me is the rampant speculation.
    Did the RIAA sue TNT? Did TNT sue the RIAA?
    Or did the RIAA pull their business because the Son of Satan - still a young lad and not yet able to lead the hellish forces and kick-start the end of days - is an intern at TNT?
    Who knows?
    But until we do know, let's just put anything up on the board. Drudge does it. Why can't we?

    Alas, sometimes I fool myself into thinking, just because they use the motto "News for Nerds..." this site actually tries to act as a news site instead of a blog (or a blog of other blogs).