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RIAA Web Site Moved To Linux
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?"
I cannot conceive of a less interesting "story" than this one. Kudos, slashdot.
Evil organizationss won't be able to use Linux or other GPL'd software.
So you can laugh all you want to...
Does that mean they are violating 200+ Microsoft patents now? ...and lets not forget SCO...
I finally got to put a chalk mark in the PROs column of my RIAA scoreboard. Actually, I had to create a PROs column. Actually, it would be nice if they'd go back to M$ and I can go back to having only one column.
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.
I wonder if they can sue the provider, if some body hosts music on there servers?
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Maybe they discovered they were running a pirated version of Win2K3, too bad they didn't become self-aware and implode upon themselves, greedy fucks....
"Hey Gary, why are we wearing bras on our heads?"
I'm trying to see their groovy new website - I can't WAIT to learn all the cool new ways I can help to fight piracy! Gee i know that website is gonna be swell ... ..... but the website still just doesn't work -
All I do is hit "refresh" over and over and over and over
but nothing happens!
---- "Logoff! That cookie shit makes me nervous!" - A. Soprano
It would be great if the submitter did work for the RIAA as his only comment on a story was "I use a...media streamer, providing access to your entire music collection wherever you are. This way I don't need to fill up my laptop drive and I can access my collection from anywhere...". Hmmm....clearly an "evil theiving pirate".
Joe Llywelyn Griffith Blakesley
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The RIAA is using Linux...
Control passes through the teeny tiny loops of slashbot's brain for a while
ERROR: CANNOT DECIDE WHETHER THIS IS GOOD NEWS OR BAD
It's all in how you word it. Require negative evidence, make "educated" guesses, etc. Observe:
My best guess is that the RIAA has been feeding little children to alligators in third world countries and charging admission in order to pay for their webhosting, and their previous hosting company found out about it. I have no evidence that they have stopped the practice, but they may now be selling children on the black market as well because of the higher TCO for running Linux, as evidenced by all the non-libelous reports from Microsoft. Moreover, in my estimation the quickest way for the RIAA to migrate their pages to a Linux host involves slave labor in Chinese coding factories with 16 hour workdays, 7 days a week, paying the overworked programmers only One Pittance per month.It's also really easy to claim that any losses incurred during the switch were caused by "piracy." Now I'm not an expert on the RIAA or anything, but I would be completely surprised if it wasn't true.
Sue me for that, suckers.
Why do they (the RIAA) have a "Parental Advisory: Explicit Content" on their temporary page right now? I wonder...
Give Kashyyyk back to the Wookies
I suddenly feel so dirty...
It appears that the move did not go smoothly as it resulted in an 8-hour downtime starting yesterday around noon, according to Netcraft.
NETCRAFT CONFIRMS: RIAA IS DEAD!
I'm more then sure putting their link on slashdot is not helping their downtime situation.
Um, how hard can a server migration be?
Take snapshot of old server
Deploy snapshot on new server.
Test new server under simulated load.
Sync new server with old server. Bonus if you can keep any web boards fully functional during the transition.
Redirect DNS.
PROFIT.
Sure the details are a bit more complicated but for a single server or small farm that's the gist of it.
If you plan it right and execute it right it should go without any hiccups.
Knowledge is how to play a game, intelligence is how to win, wisdom is knowing what game to play.
They switched to Linux, so they're good, right?
Another non-functioning site was "uncertainty.microsoft.com."
The purpose of that site was not known.
that they moved because the attacks were successful. They were obviously moved in a hasty fashion and that is why the site is under construction. All in all, the Windows site WAS wiped out.
In case some people want to see for themselves the Netcraft stats can be found here and to verify who owns a domain and what the authoritative nameservers are one should use whois.
Is this stuff that matters? Perhaps not for everybody, but some people may be interested. The P2Plawsuits site to settle your case online instead of risking court was moved fast, but I wonder how many people would be willing to enter their credit card info on a site with an invalid SSL cert.
Well, you can't blame them for the slow transition. The RIAA only has four customers, anyway.
The RIAA likely doesn't know -- much less care -- what OS or web server is running their web site. Unless you're actually a hosting company, or a company somehow involved in web hosting such that it's worth the time and money to run your own servers, the platform is entirely handled by whoever is doing your hosting. You decide who's doing your hosting based on price and features; "Linux" or "Windows" is not a feature in and of itself. Even the security of it isn't your concern: that's a problem for the people running the servers that host your website to deal with as they see fit. You, as a hosting customer, rely on their expertise in that regard.
So, pointless speculation about the deeper meaning aside, it seems they're launching a new site and moving to a new host at the same time. Only they don't have their new site ready (or it was ready, but then turned out to be broken so they're fixing it before trying again) before they moved. That's a bit odd, unless their old site had incorrect or damaging information on it and having no website was better than leaving that content up... but a big company mismanaging the move and relaunch of a website is hardly news.
I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of kernels suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened.
- GPLv3
- Bill Gates
- RIAA
- MPAA
- Ubuntu
- Apple
(delete the choices which do not fit here), so I preferred to vote for this uninteresting story.Don't you know it is now both immoral and criminal to think beyond the next quarterly report?