Downtime

Home
Downtime

US Airways Cites Data Center in Systems Outage
June 13th, 2011 : Rich Miller
US Airways says a nationwide disruption of its computer systems Friday afternoon was caused by a power outage affecting one of the company's data center facilities near Phoenix. Read More
Rapture Group’s Web Site Having Problems
May 21st, 2011 : Rich Miller
The web site of Family Radio, which has predicted that the "Rapture" of Christian believers will take place at 6 p.m. today, is currently unreachable for many Internet users. The web site's performance problems came as time zones in New Zealand reached 6 p.m., the hour at which radio evangelist Harold Camping predicted that believers would leave the earth. Read More
Downtime for Blogger, Microsoft and Twitter
May 14th, 2011 : Rich Miller
It's been a rough couple days for uptime, with major outages for Microsoft's Exchange Online services, Google's free Blogger hosting platform, and Twitter. Read More
Internet Traffic Surges on Bin Laden News
May 2nd, 2011 : Rich Miller
Internet traffic in North America spiked sharply Sunday night as users tracked news that the U.S. military had found and killed Al Qaeda leader Osma bin Laden, but fell short of record traffic levels due to the timing of the announcement. Read More
UPS Fire Knocks Web Host Aruba Offline
April 29th, 2011 : Rich Miller
Italian web host Aruba was offline this morning when a data center lost power after a fire broke out in one of the UPS rooms. Read More
Amazon: Networking Error Caused Cloud Outage
April 29th, 2011 : Rich Miller
Last week's lengthy outage for the Amazon Web Services cloud computing platform was caused by a network configuration error as Amazon was attempting to upgrade capacity on its network. Amazon today published a an incident report in which it discussed the outage, apologized to customers and outlined plans to make its platform more resilient. Read More
Lengthy Outages for WordPress.com, Netflix
March 22nd, 2011 : Rich Miller
Blog hosting service WordPress.com and online streaming video service Neflix each had lengthy outages Tuesday night that left their millions of users unable to access services. Read More
Reddit Ties Outage to Amazon Performance
March 18th, 2011 : Rich Miller
The social news site Reddit is revising how it uses Amazon's cloud computing service following performance problems that contributed to six hours of downtime for the Reddit site this week. Read More
Twitter Struggles as Japan News Traffic Surges
March 16th, 2011 : Rich Miller
Twitter is experiencing performance problems this afternoon, most likely due to high traffic as users track dramatic developments in the nuclear emergency in Fukushima, Japan. Read More