• Downtime: Hostway, Telecity

    July 28th, 2011 : Rich Miller

    Data center power outages cause downtime for customers of Hostway and TelecityGroup. Read More

  • Aberdeen Research: Quantifying Downtime

    June 21st, 2011 : Kevin Normandeau

    With limited budgets and so many initiatives how do you request money for disaster recovery? You will find an answer in this Aberdeen Research entitled "Data center Downtime, How Much Does It Really Cost?," which is enlightening in several respects. Read More

  • Go Daddy: Software Update Caused Outage

    June 14th, 2011 : Rich Miller

    The main web site for the world's largest domain registrar and web host, Go Daddy, was offline for approximately three hours Monday evening after a software update went awry, the company said. Read More

  • 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

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