Here are some IT horror stories for the voyeur in you.  We know – it’s hard not to look at traffic accidents or read about other people’s IT misery. 

Go ahead, get your fill – but take them to heart!  The main lesson of these stories?  Let the experts handle your IT, not the receptionist or accountant – you don’t want this kind of stuff happening to you, do you?  No way!  So contact us today so we can make sure your IT is in ship-shape.

And don’t forget to send us your own IT horror stories.  If we put your story online you’ll get a Spiderhost credit, a t-shirt, and a gift card for a restaurant or store.  Looks like that IT meltdown’s proving useful after all! 

The case of the Internet Traffic Jam

A regional sales VP for one high-tech office decided to send out a 40MB e-mail of his holiday party photos to his team.  With centralized e-mail, that 40MB file was multiplied when it was redirected back to the users in the remote site.  Given that there were 30 people from that sales team, the WAN was jammed up for nearly a half hour.  In the meantime, additional mail client requests to the server were rejected and other major applications also timed out.  

Now imagine if one of the other sales reps. sent a time sensitive billion dollar contract at the exact same time – those feel good holiday photos could end up costing the company a lot of cash!  Having the right remote access solution in place to handle your traffic is critical!

Source: TMCnet article “Avoiding Network Horror Stories” by Jagan Jagannathan