Many customers of dedicated server provider ServerBeach experienced downtime Friday night after a power failure in the company's data center in Herndon, Virginia.
An Equinix Inc. (EQIX) data center near Paris suffered a cooling outage late Wednesday, leaving some customer services offline for hours as the provider used backup cooling units to regain control of the temperature in the facility.
Denial of service expert Barrett Lyon has created a detailed network map of Twitter's architecture as part of his analysis of yesterday electronic attack on social networks.
Denial of service expert Barrett Lyon has created a detailed network map of Twitter's architecture as part of his analysis of yesterday electronic attack on social networks.
Today's denial of service (DOS) attack on Twitter is the latest in a series of attacks in 2009 that have targeted web hosts, domain registrars and now prominent social media sites.
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.