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4 January 2001 Best Practices for Web Site Availability A Gartner analyst offers advice on avoiding web site down time. Continuous availability requires a "multi-pronged strategy" incorporating application and infrastructure design, testing, and proactive management. Two Internet company executives also offer their list of best practices for availability. [Editor's (Murray) Note: Not very rigorous. I am glad that they promote business and people issues, limit single points of failure, and promote up-front design but is that really their "best?" Where does it say it say fix responsibility and accountability, limit complexity and function, manage change, monitor, measure, report, etc. I admit that this is a difficult area to write in but I would expect better.] Back to the Index