• 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

  • Keynote: Internet Held Up Well After Japan Quake

    March 14th, 2011 : Rich Miller

    Web monitoring firm Keynote Systems (KEYN) says Internet access in Japan remained good in the hours following Friday's earthquake and tsunami. Keynote's monitoring Friday afternoon found few major problems, although some leading Japanese sites struggled to stay up and available. Read More

  • Tumbeasts: Latest Downtime Celebrity

    March 4th, 2011 : Colleen Miller

    A new cartoon has been added to Tumblr's error page - displayed during outages -called The Tumbeast. Author and illustrator Matthew Inman of The Oatmeal created the little mutant mascot. Read More

  • WordPress.com Recovering After Major DDoS

    March 3rd, 2011 : Rich Miller

    Nearly 18 million blogs hosted by Wordpress were either slowed or offline this afternoon after the service was hit with an unusually large distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack, according to Automattic. Read More

  • Data Center Theft KOs Vodafone Network

    February 28th, 2011 : Rich Miller

    Hundreds of thousands of UK customers of Vodafone lost service this morning after switch equipment was stolen from one of the providers' data centers. Although data center thefts are unusual, there have been similar incidents in recent years. Read More

  • New Zealand Earthquake Hobbles Telco System

    February 22nd, 2011 : Rich Miller

    A major earthquake near Christchurch, New Zealand has caused widespread damage and at least 65 deaths. Much of the city is without power, and telecom companies are urging residents to use SMS text messages instead of mobile phone calls to preserve limited battery capacity. Read More

  • Was Egypt’s ‘Kill Switch’ the Big Red Button?

    February 21st, 2011 : Rich Miller

    Did a common data center safety feature play a role in the Mubarak government's move to cut off Egypt's access to the Internet? Recent reports suggest that equipment at a key Internet exchange in Cairo may have been powered down by "throwing a breaker." Read More

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