eBay's search feature, which is a key to connecting the site's millions of buyers and sellers, was down for much of Saturday, prompting an apology to users as eBay restored search functionality in phases.
Not many major retailers would take their online store offline for more than a day to conduct planned maintenance. That's what Burlington Coat Factory did this week.
A data center in Australia shut down for an hour on Monday after its VESDA (Very Early Smoke Detection Apparatus) system detected smoke from a mulch fire near the facility.
Rackspace (RAX) reports that parts of its Dallas data center lost power Monday night during testing of power distribution units (PDUs), causing downtime for customers on SliceHost/The Rackspace Cloud.
A power outage yesterday in a FiberCloud data center knocked out phone and Internet services for the city of Bellingham, Washington.
Microsoft says that after several weeks of effort to recover data from backup, it's ready to begin restoring Sidekick user data.