UK: Independent.co.uk temporarily inaccessible on Wednesday

Posted by Alisa Zykova on September 5, 2008 at 9:41 AM

Independent.co.uk, relaunched in January 2008, is the latest newspaper website to be brought down temporarily. The site was inaccessible from 10 am to 7 pm on Wednesday.

According to The Guardian, the temporary closure may affect the ABCe (Audit Bureau of Circulation Electronic) figures for September.

Bill Swanson, Independent.co.uk's general manager, said that he wasn't sure about what caused the problem, mentioning that he wasn't "impressed" with the host, who did not provide a back up system in Amsterdam, according to the Guardian.

The site had 6.5 million unique users in May this year, 7.2 million in June and 6.6 in July.

Source: The Guardian