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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A fire at the 1`51 Front Street carrier hotel in Toronto left several data center customers offline for hours over the weekend. Peer 1 Networks reported that a fire broke out at 2:26 a.m. Sunday (Eastern time) in an eighth-floor electrical room.