Not the building :).. In fact, it just opened up officially today. But it looks like the IT team of the Burj did not anticipate the traffic spike to it’e website http://www.burjdubai.com/, when the building opens. The site has been down since early CST.
All the free publicity the site is getting from the media is wasted because the site is down (OK.. I am exagerrating things a bit 🙂 ). Â If only the IT team at the Burj thought about this and deployed the site on a CDN, they could have averted this downtime. Using a CDN to power your site is becoming more of a norm than a luxury now a days. And with all the options in the market you have for a CDN, there is no excuse for any IT team to not implement this for a customer facing website.
I guess Dubai IT teams are not aware of our Successful Hoxton promo. Else they would have taken suggestion from Travel CLICK. ïŠ
They should just use you as a consultant :)..
Temporarily they have this site up……..
http://www.burjkhalifa.com/
I don’t think the alternate site is an official site. Looks like some smart entrepreneur registered the domain and is taking advantage of the fact that the official site is down :).. Check out the whois records of both the domains and where they are hosted.
🙂 Timing post!