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Sears Web Site Hit By Black Friday Outage

Posted By Rich Miller On November 28, 2008 @ 1:26 pm In Downtime | 2 Comments

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The huge crowds for Black Friday and Cyber Monday almost always result in outages for high-profile web sites. The early casualty this year appears to be Sears.com, which is experiencing performance problems Friday morning.

There are also reports of Black Friday performance problems for Microsoft’s Live Cashback [2]site. Keynote Systems reported that the Kohl’s Corp. and Saks Inc. web sites also struggled at times amid heavy web traffic.

About Rich Miller [3]

Rich Miller is the founder and editor-in-chief of Data Center Knowledge, and has been reporting on the data center sector since 2000. He has tracked the growing impact of high-density computing on the power and cooling of data centers, and the resulting push for improved energy efficiency in these facilities.

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