PTCL Site Down. Technical Issues Or Hacking?
The PTCL website www.ptcl.com.pk is inaccessible as I write this. I can think of a few possible reasons:
a. PTCL came up with a great service offering and people loved it so much that the extra traffic crashed the load balancers (sorry, this is just too much of a stretch)
b. Someone got really upset with all the rate hikes and default pakcage activations and decided to throw a few virtual stones at the ptcl glass building. Hack job it could be.
c. The IT department of PTCL forgot to patch the servers (simple incompetence). Now this is very likely!
Well, we’ll know in a short time about the real reasons. After all if they can take Youtube down, it is much easier to take their own site down :)
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This is not first time PTCL is down.
Please look at
http://www.pakpoint.com/2008/05/29/ptcl-website-httpwwwptclcompk-is-down/
This reflects the overall quality of the PTCL services.
The real reason - shared by a source familiar with the matter - was that PTCL did not pay. Disconnection for non-payment? ….what goes around comes around!
That is true. PTCL’s website was taken off by the hosting company due to end of contract and one week extended hosting. No contract renewal from PTCL’s end. Website was put back up due to pressure.
Shame on PTCL