Question

7 Comments POSTED ON Nov 07 2007 AT 7:59 am BY Beat

Why does Newsarama go offline every night from about 2-3?

Your Comments

Fanboy Menace says:

11/07/2007 at 9:42 am

Just to mess with late night internetters like yourself. :)
BradyDale says:

11/07/2007 at 9:52 am

So are you ill because you know this, or do you know this because you are ill? Get well soon, Beatster!
Matt Maxwell says:

11/07/2007 at 10:10 am

That’s when it prowls the streets of Gotham City…looking for VENGEANCE!
Ray Cornwall says:

11/07/2007 at 12:15 pm

That’s when the server cries itself to sleep…
Jimmie Robinson says:

11/07/2007 at 12:31 pm

I’ve noticed this, too.
Strange… though I’m sure there’s a reason.
What gets me is that they can just pull the plug without apology or announcement. I don’t see news media doing that in other industries.
Alan Coil says:

11/07/2007 at 9:27 pm

The same reason it does every night—so they can take over the world!

Narf!
Kelson says:

11/08/2007 at 12:40 am

I’ve wondered this too (though here on the west coast it’s around 11:00). My best guess is that they’re running some sort of nightly server maintenance — backups, maybe — and the system can’t handle both serving and maintenance at once. I haven’t figured out whether they take the forums offline deliberately, or whether it just gets overloaded.