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.
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.
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.
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.
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...
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.
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.
The microblogging service Tumblr came back online late Monday after approximately 24 hours of downtime. The problems started during a scheduled maintenance window, in which a database cluster failed.
A transfer switch failure during a transition to generator power left some iWeb customer offline last night. It was the fourth data center outage this year involving a failed transfer switch.