Web-Hosting Tips 101

[jenk]

...from The Wall Street Journal:

Talk to your information-technology department before you post naked pictures of Lindsay Lohan on your business’s Web site. The latest reminder of this ironclad rule comes from New York Magazine, which posted photographs of the 21-year-old actress recreating one of Marilyn Monroe’s more scandalous shoots on its site yesterday. (Sorry fellas, the link is to an article.) The site, which was promptly overwhelmed by art-photography fans, ground to a halt. It’s a classic Internet-age problem: The marketing department has some promotion that is bound to drive traffic to a site, but never bothers to tell IT. So the site crashes. In a testament to human nature, these incidents often involve scantily-clad women, such as the famous Victoria Secret online fashion show that nearly brought down the Internet in 1999.

I've been on both sides of that equation - both times involving that little low-traffic domain called microsoft.com. ;)