America Online's service for hosting Web pages is experiencing some
outages as the company works to upgrade the servers and storage
equipment that power it, a company spokesman confirmed
Friday.
The Internet arm of AOL Time Warner provides a service called AOL
Hometown pages, where AOL members and non-members can host personal
Web sites.
Over the past few weeks the company has been upgrading its servers
and storage capacity to keep pace with demand brought on by new
users, according to Nicholas Graham, an AOL spokesman. Some users
who have set up pages through AOL have been unable to update their
sites because of glitches in the upgrade process.
"During this time some members may have experienced some
intermittent and sporadic outages," Graham said. The company is in
the process of patching the problems, and some errors may
persist.
The Hometown pages service has roughly 10 million users and hosts
about 14 million pages, Graham said. He said the glitches resulting
from the upgrade affected only a small number of users.
"Many members have had no trouble accessing, transferring or
uploading materials to their Hometown pages," Graham said.