Wednesday, August 22, 2007

Nokia's Livenation Ticket Rush site goes offline - For a little while

So I was surfing through Nokia's Partnership Site with Livenation - The Nokia Ticket Rush website (www.ticketrush.com) and all of a sudden, things locked up and I was faced with an error of.. significant size.

The site was DOWN. I mean down for the count! It's amazing to see a major entertainment portal go offline.. and interestingly enough, it also exposed an interesting message. (See below images)

The outage started at 12:12AM EST on Wednesday August 22nd, 2007 and as of this posting, the site is still offline.

I really hope that this is due to some scheduled maintenance, I really like TicketRush as a source of presale password information. It is super easy to get mobile alerts of concerts and pre-sale alerts, and a great place for Nokia to get some exposure to their newer phones.

The plot thickens... Over at livenation at 12:16am a message indicates that the site is offline for server maintenance. Perhaps this is scheduled, and perhaps not, but regardless, It is just after midnight where I am, but still only 9PM on the west-coast. I can almost see the dollar-wheel rolling on what this is costing in terms of potential lost subscribers to their respective concert mailing lists... I'm imagining a run-away telephone with hundreds of dollars appearing on a scrolling board every few seconds... well it is my imagination after all :D

12:52AM - Sites are both still offline... I'm calling it a night anyways, gotta be up early tomorrow - It's time to finish enrolling in College! Whoooooot!

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