However the DNSes at Internet Ireland are still showing the old DNS record and incorrectly directing all kilkennypeople.ie traffic to the Unison servers. The result of this dubious action has been to effectively cripple both the Kilkenny People s e-mail and web services. In either case, it is resulting in DNS pollution and potential lack of business for the Kilkenny People. The DNSes on the other Irish sites continue to question the Internet Ireland servers and the Kilkenny People site loses traffic. The Unison attempt at a portal is executed by people who seem to have no understanding of newspaper publishing or portal design.
Portal sites are very different to the ordinary static websites.
They have to be largely database backed. This task of designing a database backed website is a very complex one. It also requires that the software and hardware backing the site are sufficient to cope with the kind of very heavy traffic that a portal site will get. Ideally such a site will be backed by a commercial database such as Oracle. Vignette StoryServer and the ArsDigita Community Server are excellent examples of portal software solutions.