Wildrose Alliance Party Makes Rookie Mistake
Last week we blogged about how big name companies, even media and web outlets, do not employ even the basics of SEO. This week, we want to show you why having basic knowledge of web servers will save you brutal embarrassment. How’s this for bad.
In Alberta the provincial election took place March 3rd, 2008. One of new and competing conservative parties in the running were looking to steal for votes from the dominant PC party. Only problem, they are so new that people don’t know much about them. How do folks check out the platform and even find out about candidates? Usually online nowadays. Only problem? On election day you couldn’t! It was ELECTION DAY and the web site went down due to too many visitors!
Here’s what visitors saw before lunchtime.
Even our wiener server could have handled the entire province of Alberta logging on at once. Apparently this rudimentary element of running a web site was overlooked on the most crucial day of the new parties existence. Too bad for them, can’t imagine how many votes they lost–mine for sure.
Although the site came online and sputtered through the rest of the day, let this be a basic lesson to you all, don’t underestimate the necessity of even basic server space and power. You’ll regret it the moment it goes down, usually in the most crucial situations.
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