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Do Brief Outages Count? Google’s SLA Says No
December 4th, 2008 : Rich Miller
Is an outage of less than 10 minutes still an outage? The Google Apps service level agreement (SLA) doesn't count outages of less than 10 minutes. Read More
Do Brief Outages Count? Google's SLA Says No
December 4th, 2008 : Rich Miller
Is an outage of less than 10 minutes still an outage? The Google Apps service level agreement (SLA) doesn't count outages of less than 10 minutes. Read More
Error Pages: Because Downtime Happens
December 3rd, 2008 : Rich Miller
Pingdom has compiled a gallery of light-hearted error pages from Web 2.0 services. Read More
Sears Web Site Hit By Black Friday Outage
November 28th, 2008 : Rich Miller
The Sears.com web site is experiencing outages Friday morning during the key Black Friday shopping surge. Read More
UPS Failure Triggered Friendster Outage
November 17th, 2008 : Rich Miller
A "catastrophic" UPS failure caused a power outage Thursday at a Santa Clara data center operated by Quality Technology Services, triggering lengthy problems for the social network Friendster. Read More
Site Outages for Friendster, Twitter
November 13th, 2008 : Rich Miller
Both Friendster and Twitter have experienced downtime this afternoon. Read More
Early Struggles for FiveThirtyEight, 270toWin
November 4th, 2008 : Rich Miller
Early performance problems are plaguing two popular sites tracking the Electoral College tally, FiveThirtyEight and 270toWin. Read More
Outage for WordPress.com Blog Platform
October 27th, 2008 : Rich Miller
WordPress.com, which hosts more than 4.5 million blogs, experienced performance problems this morning during a denial of service attack. Many site owners said their blogs were completely unreachable, while others reported that elements of their site were not functioning properly. “At approximately 9:40AM EST this morning, we suffered a Distributed Denial of Service attack which caused some blogs to become unavailable for a [...] Read More
Ping.fm Back Online After Domain Snafu
October 22nd, 2008 : Rich Miller
Ping.fm is back online after a lengthy domain snafu, which was apparently prolonged by its use of .fm, a top-level domain assigned to the Federated States of Micronesia. Read More