Posts Tagged with ‘outage’

Allen Stern over at CenterNetworks reports that Amazon has published an announcement regarding last weekend's outage of Amazon S3 services. For those of you who were neither affected, nor cared, I'd want to remind that S3 is Amazon's service that provides hosting and storage for web applications - to a certain extent for free. And last weekend the service experienced an outage of the whole 8 hours - and that with very poor communication on behalf of the [...]

First came the Tweets: is such-and-such down? Can anyone else get into Google App Engine? Then came the blog posts and the endless discussion of "giving up your app to the cloud."
The simple fact is that web sites will go down. All web sites will fail to work at some point, because 100% uptime just doesn't exist. Software will be buggy. Hardware will fail. And the best anyone can hope for is that the site is large enough and [...]

The news popped up on Twitter almost immediately; YouTube was down. After the Amazon S3 outage earlier this month, I'm sure everyone was wondering if YouTube was to blame or Google themselves had gone down. We now know what happened; in Pakistan's attempt to block the video-sharing site due to what it considered to be offensive material about Islam. In doing so, they hijacked some of the IP addresses directing traffic to YouTube, propagated the hijacking to other DNS [...]

The Skype “outage” experienced late last week wouldn’t have been as newsworthy an item if it weren’t for the fact that millions use the service on a continual basis. (By the way, the servers are back up and running.)
In other words, Skype’s an essential component in the world of telephony, one that many, many, many people simple can’t do without. Yet they were forced to put their oh-so-cheap calls on hiatus for a day and a half. Why [...]