Wow. On New Year’s Eve, one of the biggest party and event nights of the year, the Evite website goes down for planned maintenance. What a terrible plan!

So either they used this “planned maintenance” page to make it look like they didn’t mess up or they actually planned to have the website down on NYE - a much worse offense. How embarrassing.

Incidentally, earlier this month we used pingg as our online invitation solution for our going-away party. We chose it because of its nice, clean interface and minimal advertising space. It worked great and I’d recommend it. Also, they don’t seem to be down right now.

Screenshot from 7:20pm MST:

and at 7:40pm MST:

and here’s evite.com at 7:50pm MST:

And evite.com is still down at 8pm MST, 40 minutes after I first tried to access the site. Who knows how long it was down prior to 7:20pm.

420 Science is experiencing a bit of “planned maintenance” of its own. We shut down operations on December 23rd and began packing for the move to Austin.

We’re now loaded into four 28′ trailers and the trucks are on their way to Austin. We leave on Saturday, arrive Sunday and begin unloading and setting up on Monday.

We hope to begin shipping again on Friday, January 9th. Fortunately, our customers have been understanding and supportive of our move to Austin. Perhaps the free shipping we’re offering while we’re down has something to do with that.

I’ve got a party to go to and fortunately I don’t need any vital info from evite. I hope everyone has a happy new year and enjoys their NYE celebrations.