Virgin users hit by online outage
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Thousands of Virgin Media customers have no broadband following problems with routine server maintenance.
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Amazonâs S3 online storage service was down for several hours, taking startups and other customers out with it.
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Fings ain't what they used to be Broadband customers, who tend to be a bit Victor Meldrew at the best of times, are getting unhappier with the service they receive from internet service providers.â¦
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Ziff Davis - A sudden power outage has knocked millions of Six Apart Ltd.'s LiveJournal blogs offline.
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British entrepreneur Richard Branson&#39;s Virgin Group Ltd. became the latest company to throw its hat into the online music ring Monday by launching the Virgin Digital service.
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There's a big yellow bar on the Twitter home page today saying it will be down for maintenence betw 10AM and 10PM today. I haven't heard any grumbling about this, but it's worth a bit of a grumble. What other basic form of communication goes down for 12 hours at a time? What if the web went offline for 12 hours at a time? It's unthinkable, because the web is built on the Internet and is decentralized and redundant. A single router or server can go down for a few hours, days or forever, and the web keeps on tickin.  Same with email. If Gmail started having twelve-hour planned outages, as much as I like Gmail, I'd switch. I can't be without email for any extended period of time.  Okay, let's give the guys at Twitter credit -- they stopped being flip about Twitter taking naps or showers. No one likes jokes when a line of communication is down. Now I'd like them to take another step. Assuming these long outages are really necessary, explain to us what they're for. I can take a guess -- something about their database needs changing, and all the data in all the files must be processed to implement the change. Any updates made while such a process is running would be lost, so the server must be shut off. But this is just a guess.  Another guess -- maybe they've hired a scaling expert who needs to make one final major adjustment before these outages are a thing of the past? No one would want to make such a promise, that's offering too much temptation to Dr Murphy, but that would be good news. Maybe Twitter is getting on to solid ground, finally.  It's fairly amazing that there isn't a viable Twitter clone out there yet. I'd also like to see something much more decentralized, based on static files, available to any Twitter-like system. It doesn't seem that far out of reach. With all the scaling troubles Twitter has had it's surprising that there haven't yet been any entrepreneurs willing to enter the space as competition to Twitter.  Users and developers are learning first-hand why centralized systems are so fragile. I'm sure they're doing a heroic job at Twitter, the best they can with what they have, but it's not good enough when the service takes a 12-hour break while many of the humans that depend on it are awake and working.
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Internet outages disrupted business and personal usage across a wide swathe of the Middle East on Wednesday after an undersea cable in the Mediterranean was damaged, government officials and Internet service providers said.
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VALLEY FORGE, Pa. - A computer network outage at The Vanguard Group, which manages $1.1 trillion in mutual fund assets, temporarily left customers unable to access online accounts Thursday afternoon.
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LOS ANGELES, California, United States of America - Richard Branson&#39;s Virgin Group said Monday it was jumping into online music, with a &quot;Digital Megastore&quot; for US customers offering song downloads for 99 cents.
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Customers of AT&T Inc.'s premium television service, U-verse, were hit with outages Sunday throughout the 33 markets where it's available, the company has confirmed.
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Outages continue to plague Microsoft's online service since the weekend, possibly due to a virus using the service to spread.
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A massive telephone service outage is affecting thousands in West Virginia, after FiberNet had a network failure that affected both its primary and backup systems. The problem began at 5:30am and continues to persist five hours later. Hospitals, fire departments, businesses and homes are affected.
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Is there anybody out there? A network glitch left Vodafone UK customers travelling abroad without data and voice connectivity this morning.â¦
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Richard Branson&#39;s Virgin Group has become the latest company to throw its hat into the online music ring by launching the Virgin Digital service.
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Legend Communications cock-up UK ISP Legend Communications has been suffering an alphabetical technical problem over the past couple of days apparently affecting its Designer Servers customers:â¦
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StarBand reportedly was supporting its customers with dial-up service during the outage. Intelsat said it was not yet sure what caused the problem on board the IA-7 satellite during the early hours of Sunday
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InfoWorld - The Google Analytics Web site monitoring service suffered an outage that affected some users for more than 24 hours this week, prompting many to vent on blogs and forums their frustration with the situation and with what they perceived as unresponsiveness on Google&#39;s part.