HOLLAND AMERICAN Site and maintaince problems...

[AAAAmerican]

Holland American is doing so called site maintaince.. and has other problems too now..

This website will be unavailable on Saturday, September 16, 2006 from 7:00 PM until Sunday 7:00 AM PDT due to system maintenance. We regret any inconvenience and thank you for your patience.



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We are so sorry.

Please excuse the inconvenience, we are experiencing technical difficulties and www.hollandamerica.com is temporarily unavailable.

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We look forward to serving you in the future.

They are adding more on the site now ... Updates follow...:eek:

[jhannah]

Their website has not been dependably stable for any length of time in what seems like forever. Maybe with a 12-hour window they're doing something significant. (We can hope, can't we?)

[AAAAmerican]

Hope is forever eternal and was the good Hospital Ship ...

The Domain and URL are currently:

http://www.experience-hollandamerica.com/:D

[RevNeal]

Websites can be touchy, and particularly so when advanced html, java, etc. features are included in the essential operations. Combine this with server maintenance issues due to server age and internet backbone problems and you have a recipe for disaster.

In my opinion, HAL's website problems escallated when they tried to "fancy" it up without matching the increased server-needs with increased server capacity.

Sometimes simpler is better.

[AAAAmerican]

Websites can be touchy, and particularly so when advanced html, java, etc. features are included in the essential operations. Combine this with server maintenance issues due to server age and internet backbone problems and you have a recipe for disaster.

In my opinion, HAL's website problems escallated when they tried to "fancy" it up without matching the increased server-needs with increased server capacity.

Sometimes simpler is better.

The average connection rate Worldwide is still 28.8 BPS. SO yes the K I S S principle is ever present and needed still.

Yes they need to buy more server nodes as well better pipe and Tier access.

Thats why Verizon (VZ:NYSE) bought just out of bankrupcy, CH 11 , MCI (MCIP:OTC) for mainly the companies as clients but they MCI has TIER ONE Access.

Ivan the Chairman of VZ called MCI the last beachfront property... it was a great buy ... for them.

HAL since the consolidation with CCL's services has well not been as nice when they had it on there own.. ... subing out sometimes does have difficulties as you loose the control and character.. but less cost basis is a very M - portant factoring..:eek:

[Hojo's redbeard]

Carnival's website has always been pretty unreliable too. Maybe their IT department needs to outsource it to their neighbor Microsoft (say what you will about their software, but they can put together amazing websites)