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Tuesday, June 9, 2009

Barry / Media City Paper Offline

Posted by Bruce Barry on Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 9:45 AM

A brief web outage at a media site is not exactly news, but when it's a 24/7 news operation whose downtime spans 10 hours and counting, including morning drive time (as they say in radio), then it's worth peeking in to make sure the business model is still alive and kicking. And yes, the City Paper is still alive and kicking, if temporarily in a vegetative state. Chris Ferrell of parent company Southcomm tells Pith that a server software upgrade last night "didn't go well," sending the paper's web site down around midnight. Ferrell says his IT types are "trying to figure out exactly what created the problem" and adds hopefully that "hopefully we'll be back up soon."

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"Didn't go well."
Interesting description.

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Posted by Emmet Flatus on June 9, 2009 at 10:29 AM

And now the URL leads to a site called Business TN, with some of the same writers as the City Paper. It looks like just a redirect to a functioning web site, as SouthComm's other sites seem to be up and running.

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Posted by jamiealex on June 9, 2009 at 11:11 AM

CP site is back up.

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Posted by bb on June 9, 2009 at 12:39 PM

Thank God! C'mon Nels, wtf?

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Posted by Pancho on June 9, 2009 at 2:34 PM

Gotta love how far the City Paper has come in just the last year. The site goes down for a few hours and the readers revolt. Local reporting seems to build a following.

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Posted by URA on June 9, 2009 at 3:54 PM
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