Recent GameSpot Outages

Hi All-

GameSpot has had a few outages recently, and I wanted to share a bit about the problems and what we're doing to prevent them from recurring.

The three recent outages have occured on February 20, March 22, and today, March 25. During the outage you might have seen an error saying "503 too busy", or a browser message indicating the site was down. The durations of the outages ranged from 25 minutes (today) to 2 hours (February 20), and are related to an issue between a piece of network equipment that routes traffic to the computers which actually serve the pages to you. 

We have made some changes to the configuration of this equipment which we believe will prevent the problem from recurring on a spike, instead serving the site a few seconds slower until the site catches up. We believe this should give you a better site experience, which is what we're here for. 

My apologies for the outages, and thanks again for using GameSpot!

-simon