A major site outage that knocked Intuit web sites offline for more than 24 hours was caused by a data center power failure during routine maintenance, the company said tonight.
The blog hosting service Wordpress.com suffered a major outage last night, affecting as many as 10.2 million hosted blogs, including high-profile news sites like TechCrunch and GigaOm.
Twitter was down for nearly 90 minutes this morning following a briefer outage overnight. But overall reliability has improved, with uptime of 99.8 percent or better for 2010 thus far.
IT systems in Dallas County were offline for more than three days last week after a water main break flooded the basement of the Dallas County Records Building, which houses the UPS systems for the county data center.
Two of the largest U.S. web hosting companies experienced lengthy outages Tuesday, as Bluehost was offline due to a power outage in Utah and Media Temple battled an electronic attack on its nameservers.
Amazon's EC2 cloud computing service suffered its fourth power outage in a week on Tuesday, with some customers in its US East Region losing service for about an hour. The incident was triggered when a vehicle crashed into a utility pole near one...
Several prominent Internet finance portals experienced performance problems this afternoon as the major stock market indicators plunged precipitously, apparently due to an errant trade. The incident may intensify scrutiny of high frequency trading...