Los Angeles, CA, May 02, 2008 --(
PR.com)-- The 2008 Presidential campaign is the first campaign in which information is sought out by voters in record volumes. It has never before become so apparent that having a website available at all times of the day to explain a candidate's view can make or break a campaign. With traffic in the millions to the websites of Obama, Clinton, and McCain, they need to utilize high-available systems and best practices to maintain uptime during the times that they need voters the most.
Jon Unger of IT Service Week (http://www.itserviceweek.com) takes an outside approach look at how traffic in the past year has increased in record proportions and some of the web servers tactics that the campaign could have used to maintain high availability.
Unger further explains that when designing a website for a candidate that plans to run for office needs to be driven by a high powered hosting server well before they make the announcement to the press and public.
IT Service Week is a blog owned and operated by SmallCart Systems. SmallCart Systems is a Los Angeles based consulting firm dedicated to improving IT operations quality of service and reducing cost through the use of best practices such as ITIL and IT Service Management.
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