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July 16, 2006

4TV.com Site Down During Move to Dedicated Server

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Today I wanted to try out 4TV to see how well it streamed TV. However, I got the following message when I visited the site:

4TV.COM
We will be back tomorrow on a dedicated server, thanks for all the vi sits and support. And Stay tuned for more…

I think there are 2 ways to look at this:

1. 4TV is illegal and the site got taken down because of legal problems.

2. 4TV is so popular that it needed to move to a dedicated server to handle all the traffic.

Looking at my statistic logs I would say that it must be the second option. People have been swarming to my post called “Free Online TV – Including Free HDTV Channels, ESPN, HBO, Movie Channels All Streamed Online” I can’t imagine why!?

I hope that the major networks start to embrace online TV even more fully because I think we are all ready to get TV anywhere we have an internet connection. If the major networks don’t hop on board it’s going to be a major problem for their business. Although, maybe they just look at online TV as another set of viewers for their advertisers. Let’s hope this is the case, but I won’t be holding my breath.

I think more important is why 4TV couldn’t move to a dedicated server without taking the site down. And even more poignant is that 4TV wasn’t on a dedicated server from the beginning. I remember reading an interview with the founder of Digg where he said he started Digg on a dedicated server because he knew it would be a big thing. Too bad 4TV didn’t have the same vision.

Until then you can always risk trying one of these options:
Streamed TV Live(ABC, ESPN, ESPN2 HBO, CNN, ETC) – Probably Illegal

Free TV Downloads

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4 responses to "4TV.com Site Down During Move to Dedicated Server"

  1. # Juanchito commented on July 17th, 2006:

    I saw it down again today, but it is back

  2. # Porqisa commented on July 19th, 2006:

    I wonder why they needed a dedicated server since they aren’t streaming anything. They just show a bunch of pages with link to external sources.
    Anyway the UI on 4TV isn’t really friendly, i’m using this site since a couple of months and I must say that they have a wider range of channels wich are almost always working, with a very nice user interface. this link http://www.streamick.com/cc is even better.
    Just my 2cents..

  3. # tox commented on July 26th, 2006:

    There are nothing to say, just click http://lordoftv.com
    My favorite is music channels like Ministry of Sound or DeeJAy TV!

  4. # Kim commented on August 12th, 2007:

    Dude, just go to http://www.boxsweeper.com it has the most tv shows and movies streaming for free

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