I just tried to pay my USA credit cards online, and at 1:30 am PST this morning (Sunday) all three account websites were down for maintenance (either refused the login or refused to show account activity.)
Hmm … I’ve noticed a pattern of financial websites always taking the maintenance window, instead of architecting for 7×24 uptime. The web is still treated like a second-class citizen compared to the rest of the banking system.
Note: I used to work for a major bank, and the IT employees were smart enough to avoid this. Not sure what’s going on.
msnbc: BofA online banking down for 4 hours (August 27, 2010)
theregister.co.uk: Morgan Chase blames Oracle for online bank crash
cnn.com: Bank of America website suffers outage
