Why would Joementum's web site be down on Election eve?

[CatWoman]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x2762979

[applegrove]

1. Neo's trying hard to make him loose so he can be their "PATSY"?

LOL

Don't actually know. Seems bad form.

[stevedeshazer]

2. I honestly think it's a publicity stunt

It's to get attention.

After all, I've never visited his website until now.

Just another nutcase theory, but I can't think of any other reason. :shrug:

[David Zephyr]

3. Because they are testing the new one: "Joe the Independent"

I'm sure they are running it through its paces now along with forwarding it to the new site, whatever it will be called.

He's gonna lose.

This Corporate Media circling the wagons with false polls is going to backfire because anyone thinking it will be close will give the nod to Lamont.

People vote their hearts in primaries. Lamont will win.

[Ian_rd]

4. Not to be a buzzkill, but I'm sure it's just high traffic. nt.

[dweller]

14. all the farewells ...

:cry:

yet ending in 'where the good lord splitya' ???

dp

[Redstone]

5. Fuck him. Stick a fork in him; he's done.

Redstone

[napi21]

6. On another DU post many said that's the placeholder when you

don't pay your hosting bill! With all the chaos in his campaign, I can see how someone would have forgotten to do that!

[Ediacara]

7. They may be redesigning the page anticipating a loss

Although that generally happens AFTER the election...

[MercutioATC]

8. Hacked is my bet.

[charlie]

9. Nope. They fucked up

http://nedlamont.com/blog/978/desperation

[MercutioATC]

10. I stand corrected. Looks like they've had this issue before.

[DanCa]

11. Maybe he wanted to watch Kyle XY on fox family?(nt)

[Tom Joad]

12. Check out Ned's blog.

Might have been they did not anticipate such high usage on election eve, and they took it down, maybe they did not give enough to the host.

http://nedlamont.com/blog/978/desperation

[Oilwellian]

13. TPM chimes in....

TPM Reader RB chimes in on the Joe website mystery ...

I own a web hosting company (***********.com) that uses the same software as the Lieberman site. That screenshot that the Lamont folks grabbed is a standard automated warning from a website control panel known as "Cpanel". Most large webhosts host many thousands of domains and their systems are automated. If a bill goes unpaid, or bandwidth is exceeded by a specified amount, the site gets auto-suspended and that Cpanel page replaces the index page. It's possible that the site was suspended for exceeding their bandwidth allotment as opposed to not paying their bills, but for someone like Joe Lieberman to not have his ducks in a row on the night before an election like this is quite telling.


Other knowledgeable emailers suggest the same possibility -- not that Joe folks necessarily forgot to pay their bill but that they tripped some bandwidth or server load limit and hadn't made arrangements in advance to keep the site online if this happened.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/