Wow Munchies has a Web site, www.wowmunchies.
com , which is currently hosted on server 123coolhost at a Web-hosting company called Cool Hosting. But Wow Munchies has decided to have its Web pages updated and serviced by another hosting company, Reliable Host, using the server 123reliable. The new hosting company pointed the DNS for www.wowmunchies.com to server 123reliable before it had the Web pages loaded and tested on its server. It takes 12–72 hours for the DNS change to take place, and Reliable thought it would have the Web pages up in the lag time.
It wasn’t able to. As a result, the DNS pointed to the new server for several days before the new site was functioning again. Wow Munchies lost an estimated $200,000 in revenues as a result of the sites downtime. Comment on what went wrong, and how it could have been avoided.