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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 grandmother doesn't care about such bullshit... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    ...and she's the type that sits in the window and writes down the number plates of the cars that pass by on the highway.

    Really, everyone who cares about this should get a live and play WoW 365x24 straight w/o going to the toilet.

    Sheesh...

  2. hey kdawson: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    quit posting this gay shit on Zonk's blog.

  3. Re:My grandmother doesn't care about such bullshit by thc69 · · Score: 0, Troll

    As irrelevant as this "story" is, and as sensationalistic as the description is...even then, it's still not as bad as WoW addiction. That shit is no joking matter.

    A better hobby is probably feeding Vogon grandmothers to the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal.

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    Procrastination -- because good things come to those who wait.
  4. Re:first post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I cannot conceive of a less interesting "story" than this one. Kudos, slashdot.
    Kdawson is kdawson's own worst enemy. He has all of these noble ideas about life and society, but he can't help but inject conspiracy and oppression into every facet of an issue. Crying "victim" is his only method in life - learned it as a toddler and never grew out of it.