A company that shall stay nameless (because I don’t want to get in trouble) launched a new social network type facility today. The email extolled the virtues of the numerous facilities available. The link took you to a “Closed for Maintenance” page. Brilliant.

To be fair I guess there is always a major scaling issue involved in this kind of thing. The nameless company is a big one and that mail shot will have gone hundreds of thousands of people - maybe the site got a few more hits than it could cope with.

I’m not a web developer but surely there are ways of testing that accurately