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Valentine’s Day Traffic Slams Florist Sites
February 16th, 2011 : Rich Miller
Is your data center ready to handle traffic on your busiest day? A Pingdom analysis found several prominent florists saw their web sites slammed by Valentine's Day traffic. Read More
IBM’s Watson Delivers, but His Web Site Doesn’t
February 15th, 2011 : Rich Miller
The IBM Watson supercomputer seems to be able to beat the best humans in Jeopardy. But his web site isn't faring nearly as well. The web site hosting IBM's post-match commentary blog, asmarterplanet.com, was experiencing availability problems Tuesday evening. Read More
Egyptian Networks Turn Off the Internet
January 27th, 2011 : Rich Miller
After day-long reports that Egyptian users access to social networks has been disrupted, Internet routing experts say Thursday night that the entire nation is largely cut off from the Internet. Read More
Brisbane, Queensland Flooding Impacts ISPs
January 11th, 2011 : Colleen Miller
In Australia, flash flooding in Queensland has caused the Brisbane River to overflow its banks. Australian ISPs are reporting outages and major IT firms have contributed to a flood fund. Read More
Skype: Overloaded Servers Caused Ripple Effect
December 29th, 2010 : Rich Miller
Skype says last week's massive outage was triggered when a cluster of servers became overloaded, causing congestion and capacity problems that were exacerbated by a bug in the latest version of Skype's Windows software client. Read More
Roundup: Skype’s Massive Service Outage
December 22nd, 2010 : Rich Miller
The Internet telephony service Skype is experiencing a massive outage today, leaving its users to ponder a new question: what's a mega-supernode? Here's a roundup of some of the notable analysis and commentary. Read More
2010: The Year in Downtime
December 22nd, 2010 : Rich Miller
Lightning storms, floods, car crashes and errant transfer switches were the culprits in some of this year's most significant data center outages. 2010 also saw at least four major outages for e-commerce services, and incidents that knocked government services offline for days. Read More
As Downtime Mounts, Tumblr Adds Data Center
December 20th, 2010 : Rich Miller
The insta-blogging service Tumblr, which has had a dismal uptime track record lately, has raised $30 million in funding and will use some of the cash to expand its data center infrastructure. Read More
The Week in WikiLeaks
December 10th, 2010 : Rich Miller
Internet infrastructure has made headlines during the controversies surrounding the Wikileaks web site and subsequent DDoS attacks attributed to Anonymous. Here's a roundup of some of the best analysis from around the web. Read More