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PayPal and the Cost of Downtime
August 4th, 2009 : Rich Miller
PayPal says a network hardware failure was responsible for Monday's downtime. What was the cost of downtime for its merchant partners? About $2,000 a second. Read More
Performance Problems for PayPal
August 3rd, 2009 : Rich Miller
Performance problems at PayPal are causing problems for many e-commerce sites today. eBay is acknolwedging the issues, which are impeding user logins and merchant transaction processing. Read More
Brief Outage for Wikipedia
July 31st, 2009 : Rich Miller
The Wikipedia site is offline this morning and displaying a message saying the site cannot reach its database server. Read More
Outage for MySQL.com Web Sites
July 22nd, 2009 : Rich Miller
The web site for the open source MySQL database has been offline for much of the day due to a power outage in Uppsala, Sweden . Read More
Outage for Amazon Web Services
July 19th, 2009 : Rich Miller
Amazon's cloud computing services have experienced performance problems this afternoon, with multiple services affected. Read More
Rackspace CEO Napier on Dallas Outages
July 10th, 2009 : Rich Miller
Rackspace Hosting (RAX) has posted a video in which President and CEO Lanham Napier provides additional information about the recent outages at the company's Dallas data center and how Rackspace plans to address them. Read More
Hosting Downtime and Competition
July 9th, 2009 : Rich Miller
A look at outage-related customer poaching through "rescue marketing" using Twitter and Google keyword ads, along with an interesting perspective from ServInt CEO Reed Caldwell. Read More
Another Tough Day at Rackspace
July 8th, 2009 : Rich Miller
Rackspace Hosting's Dallas data center experienced another power outage Tuesday, just eight days after a high-profile outage at the same facility. Read More
Photos of Fire Damage at Fisher Plaza
July 7th, 2009 : Rich Miller
TechFlash has photos of the fire damage inside an electrical room at Seattle's Fisher Plaza. The fire Thursday night left data centers in the building without power for more than a day. Read More