Amazon.com Experiences Sporadic Outage
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SEATTLE Dec 6, 2004 - Some customers had trouble reaching Amazon.com&#39;s Web site on Monday in what analysts described as probable technical difficulties for the world&#39;s largest online retailer during the crucial holiday selling season.
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Just days after Brazil's deadliest plane crash a radar outage over the Amazon spread the country's aviation crisis overseas, spawning ripple-effect delays at a half-dozen U.S. airports.
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SEATTLE -- Several companies lost access to their own files when Amazon.com Inc.'s pay-as-you-go data storage system went down Friday morning.
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Service interruptions reported across the U.S.
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A coding error during routine upgrade maintenance at online payment Web site PayPal.com has created havoc for users, who have had only intermittent access to their accounts since Friday.
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Amazon's data storage service was down for several hours on Friday, leaving businesses that rely on the service offline.
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NEW YORK - Web sites for President Bush&#39;s campaign and the Republican National Committee had outages for several hours yesterday.
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Repairs were underway Monday at PayPal as the widely used online payment service struggled to get customers back on track after several days of "intermittent" outages.
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Day two of the Eastern hemisphere's widespread Internet outage has seen an incremental worsening of the situation as another submarine cable has been severed.
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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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Complaints that online store is down, among others.
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By MAY WONG    SAN JOSE, Calif.  -- Most members of the online payment service Paypal should be able to log on to the Web site after five days of intermittent service outages and furious repair efforts, the company said...
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Online payment service PayPal continued to suffer outages Tuesday. Company officials insisted the problems were &quot;intermittent,&quot; but many consumers complained they hadn&#39;t been able to log on
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A major outage is affecting many Skype users' ability to log on to the network and send IMs. The company is mum, but some pin the blame on a series of Microsoft updates released yesterday.
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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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Despite more than a decade of experience with e-commerce, many major online retailers continue to experience outages, slowdowns and outright glitches on their websites. Why can't they get it right?
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Amazon.com Inc.'s  days as a hot-shot dot-com may be behind it as the Internet retailer's slowing growth makes its business suspiciously similar to that of its brick-and-mortar peers.