The Hypocrisy Weblog

Via slashdot: xseedit writes “The RIAA has moved their main Web site www.riaa.com from IIS on Win2003 to Apache 2.2.3 on Red Hat. It appears that the move did not go smoothly as it resulted in an 8-hour downtime starting yesterday around noon, according to Netcraft. And the RIAA is still showing a ‘temporarily under construction’ page. They also moved their DNS from the small company that had been hosting them for the past 4 years, Tomorrow’s Solutions Today (TST Inc.), to Mindshift Technologies. One can only guess what happened here, but the move seems to have been sudden and unplanned. They still haven’t moved the riaa.org, riaa.net, and musicunited.org domains — those are still pointing to the TST nameservers that no longer accept queries for those domains. TST Inc. deserves credit, however. They seem to have managed to host the RIAA quite successfully for the past 4 years. Will Mindshift do a better job hosting one of the most reviled, and therefore most attacked, Web sites in the world? I wonder if anybody at the RIAA or TST would care to comment on the reasons behind this sudden move. Could it be that the RIAA is being sued by its hosting provider? Or perhaps the sue-happy organizaiton is suing its provider?”

As seen above, RIAA’s website has moved both server environment as well as ISP (Internet service provider). Comments on slashdot express the irony they see of RIAA moving from the closed-source environment being Microsoft Windows Server 2003 to the GPL:ed ditto of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.RIAA is probably one of the prime targets for various attacks (code, ddos, dos) on the Internet, and the move to a more resilient environment such as Red Hat Enterprise Linux was probably a necessity in the end. Also, one can figure that they grew out of the resources that their old ISP, Tomorrow’s Solutions Today, could provide.

What do you think was the reason for switching both server-environment as well as ISP?