Pls can someone tell SUNNEWSONLINE.COM to use an unlimited bandwidth, this is a major cause of their website being down all the time. kudos to the webmasters for the job a little well done. yes you have made major changes to your website but come on Sun Newspapers you need bandwidth. i think ur registrar (directnic.com) is ripping u off. with what you pay, you will get unlimited from the big boy registrars

I actually don't like their new layout (as of yesterday). Compared to the old one, I prefer the old. They have been down for at least a week. When you don't see the "new website coming soon message", you will see a combination of "file now found" or "unauthorized access". Very annoying. I only return because they have good news.

I am thinking of giving them one more week before like Daily Independent news website, I add them to my ban list

oluwa12002: Pls can someone tell SUNNEWSONLINE.COM to use an unlimited bandwidth, this is a major cause of their website being down all the time. kudos to the webmasters for the job a little well done. yes you have made major changes to your website but come on Sun Newspapers you need bandwidth. i think ur registrar (directnic.com) is ripping u off. with what you pay, you will get unlimited from the big boy registrars

I think their problem could be that the old site was running on flat files(no database). Just plain static test posting/adding of news so it could be hosted on any shared /reseller hosting . I think since they migrated to a data-based cms(Drupal I suspect), the site has had to make repeated calls to the database hence an increase in resource usage resulting to the constant break down.

Now they will get to see what the rest (Guardian, Vanguard, Businesday, Thisday) spend on hosting every year.

They will need to get a solid dedicated server to run their website as the site generates huge traffic.

Nice upgrade.

Since I can't create new topics (I keep getting "unexpected error". . .since yesterday), I will create a new, related topic here:

na wa o! No more than 2 days ago, we were discussing sun news. Today, I am talking about punch. Please visit their site and see the "maintenance" message: http://www.punchng.com/

I must confess, the page is pretty cool (they even have a dynamic clock that tells you when they "hope (I could go on another tangent about this but I will hold back for now )" to be back) but why must you bring down the whole site just because you want to perform maintenance? Have they thought of those that could jump ship because of this delay?

Common sense would dictate that they use the old database to host news on a subdomain/subfolder, redirect traffic there and do their performance work on the root. Then once everything has been tested, they push stuff, including redirecting traffic back to the root.

Now, I am 2 sites down when it comes to where I go daily for news. Na wa o!