Tag: Outage
Skype said Thursday that software problems have left many of its millions of users without service worldwide. Some users are able to connect to the Skype network but then are quickly disconnected just minutes later.
"Some of you may be having problems logging into Skype. Our engineering team has determined that it’s a software issue. We expect this to be resolved within 12 to 24 hours. Meanwhile, you can simply leave your Skype client running and as soon as the issue is resolved, you will be logged in. We apologize for the...
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6 back-to-back power outages hit the SOMA neighborhood of San Francisco Tuesday afternoon causing major havoc with popular web services. 365 Main is down, along with craigslist, Netflix, Technorati, Yelp, AdBrite, SixApart (including TypePad, LiveJournal and Vox) and it caused some problems at Current TV as well.
So the big question, where is the backup power at the data centers used by these services? UPS and diesel generators should normally be used a situation like this.
Posted by
ToPo 1 year 11 months ago
Looks like YouTube is down again...
"We are releasing a couple of new things and doing some maintenance. We'll be back in a bit." or, in other words: DataBase problems...
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For roughly six hours on Tuesday, YouTube.com suffered its first-ever “unplanned outage”, depriving millions of office worker and college-kid fans of one of the broadband era’s most popular distractions, spokeswoman Julie Supan confirmed.
Late-night followers of the Internet video phenomenon YouTube are familiar with the Silicon Valley start-up’s quirky habit of taking its site offline for several hours every few weeks for scheduled database maintenance or software upgrades. Normally, these planned outages are signaled in advance...
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The latest data from Hitwise reveals the winners during MySpace’s power outage on July 22nd and 23rd.
If a site with over 4% of all internet visits and over 17% of all page impressions in the U.S. goes down, where do people go instead? Better yet, this outage, while unfortunate for MySpace, gives us an excellent opportunity to understand its importance to U.S. Internet users by allowing us to study how people reacted when the site was unavailable.
Google, amongst top sites, experiences the greatest increase in page impression market...
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A record-breaking heatwave which crippled power systems throughout California shut down MySpace.com for nearly 12 hours, starting on Sunday night.
The popular social-networking site, which recently topped Yahoo! Mail as the most-visited website in the US, was disabled entirely as of 18:40(PT) on Sunday.
The homepage was replaced by a placeholder with a message from MySpace founder Tom Anderson, who said the site was dealing with a power outage in its data centre. He cited the time as 18:40(PT) and estimated MySpace would "hopefully" be...
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Posted by
elliot 1 year 12 months ago
Today myspace has suffered a major database problem. And it looks the cleanest it has ever looked before, without any ads everywhere.
Aa far as I know SoCal has had an intense power drain because of the weather.
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