Telegraph website falls over in outage riddle

The website for UK daily newspaper The Telegraph has gone titsup today, and had been out for about an hour at the time of writing. The site currently returns a 404 error page on all its pages, including the landing page, which says "Sorry. We cannot find the page you are looking for". A request for comment on the outage had …

[Spiracle]

Well I've just been thumbing through it for an hour or so with no problems. I should check your DNS.

[paulc]

durrr...

the website was reachable... it displayed the frame around the normal pages with the Telegraph graphics and menus, just had a 404 error message for every sub section tried...

[Lee Dowling]

Maybe they use computers they bought from Dixons?

[JimboJones]

Hilariously, I'm getting the same for some stories on the reg homepage :)

[Gazareth]

I reckon El Reg killed it...

By linking them in the Aviva story.

[Haku]

OMG! A WEBSITE IS OFFLINE!!!!!11!!1

Slow news day?

[JimC]

Re: OMG! A WEBSITE IS OFFLINE!!!!!11!!1

Hearing about stuff ups like that is very good for the morale of those of us who have to keep our employee's systems running with 15minutes an day and a monthly budget of 5 pounds and a Mars bar. Thus its a service to undervalued sysadmins. Sitting down with a beer when someone else is in trouble may be reprehensible, but its also very comforting.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: OMG! A WEBSITE IS OFFLINE!!!!!11!!1

WTF you get a Mars Bar and money ??

I need to work fro a betterer company

[Kevin Johnston]

Eeeek

This is an important site, where else can you get the Alex cartoon?

[LinkOfHyrule]

True story....

I've just been down the newsagents to buy a paper version but it was just a sheet of A4 with "404 PAGE NOT FOUND" printed on it in huge bold text!

Bloody print media not understanding the interwebz!

[Mike 16]

I was hoping

that this story was really about a Telegraph Web Site. Something like GreenKeys, but older yet

"Mr Wheatstone, come here...".

I suppose that the telautograph would be a better fit for today's graphics-heavy web, though.

[itzman]

it was off for me

from two entirely different networks

the fashion and dates pages always worked tho.

[philbo]

Did anyone else

..read that as "outrage"?

As I was surfing here and there

I hit a page that wasn't there

It wasn't there again, I read

An "Error 404" instead