The Vatican site experienced extended outages earlier this month as Internet users around the world sought information about the failing health of Pope John Paul II. After the initial series of outages, The Vatican made changes to its hosting infrastructure, switching from a Hewlett Packard Tru64 Unix operating system to Sun’s Solaris 9. The site performed better in the wake of the switch, and was widely available during a webcast of the Pope’s funeral, but is struggling today.