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BBC News website crashed?

Problems with BBC News website. Lunchtime 19th Feb (February 2009)

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RT
rts Founding member
Circa 1300

Is it just me or has the website crashed?

We're gettting the following on all our computers at work.

No suitable nodes are available to serve your request.

1308

Rory Cellan-Jones on Twitter:

Twitterverse - to answer your question, yes the BBC news website is down. We are working to resolve the issue. Will update when fixed.

1311

Text now loading but no images.

1318

Some images now loading.

1320

Videos back. Normal service appears to have resumed.

1323

Very sluggish. Loading of website timing out for many. Probably increased traffic from people learning of the crash!

1325

Rory Cellan-Jones on Twitter:

The BBC News site is back - so you can all go back to dot life again: http://tinyurl.com/bodcqm

Follow the thread for further updates...
GO
gottago
Yep, gone for me as well. Sport's down as well.
DB
dbl
Yep, I'm getting the same message as well.
RT
rts Founding member
Seems to be back now?
TT
TickTock
Glad to know it's not just me, then!

Very unusual for the Beeb news site to go down.
TT
TickTock
I got this at 13:22:

Network Timeout

The server at news.bbc.co.uk is taking too long to respond.
AN
Ant
I still can't on. Thought it was my internet connection at first - normally BBC News is pretty reliable.
RT
rts Founding member
Editors blog now reporting the technical problems.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/theeditors/2009/02/technical_problems.html

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