Another extended outage at Rhapsody locks out some users
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Some Rhapsody users are huffing and puffing but the service won't let them in. Second outage since March blocks an unknown number of customers and some are frustrated that the company doesn't know when it will be fixed.
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Blog: Reports start to surface about server downage across several Yahoo properties; is the summer heat to blame?
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Amazon&#39;s data storage service was down for several hours on Friday morning, leaving businesses that rely on the service offline.As of around 9 a.m. on the West Coast of the U.S., the issue had been resolved, according to an Amazon employee posting on a user group forum. &quot;This morning&#39;s issue has been resolved, and the system is continuing to recover,&quot; wrote Kathrin, the Amazon employee, on the forum.She said that the company plans to post technical information about what exactly happened, but that the priority is to make sure the system is stable.Companies use Amazon&#39;s Simple Storage Service, known as S3, to store and quickly retrieve large amounts of data, often to run Web sites and services.A press spokesman said that one of three geographic locations for the service was unreachable for about two hours, but that it was operating at 99 percent of normal performance before 7 a.m. on the West Coast. &quot;We&#39;ve been communicating with our customers all morning via our support forums and will be providing additional information as soon as we have it,&quot; said Drew Herdener in a statement.Many customers appeared not to have gotten that communication. They complained on the forum about a lack of information from Amazon about the outage and when it would be fixed. One suggested that Amazon could have at least posted a message on the front page of the Web services site so that customers would be aware that the problem wasn&#39;t on their end.Others wrote about the problems that the outage was causing their businesses. &quot;It&#39;s becoming very embarrassing for us here,&quot; one wrote. &quot;We desperately need an update ... it&#39;s a huge hit on our reputation.&quot;Many of the users said that the service was down for around three hours.Gustavo, a user in Brazil, said that his company hosts more than 30,000 images from a large television station in Brazil. &quot;Now we are having several problems because of this S3 issue,&quot; he wrote. &quot;My company chose to work with Amazon because of its reliability.&quot;Late last year, Amazon introduced a new service level agreement for S3 that guaranteed 99.9 percent uptime each month. If the service slips below that level, the company promised to provide service credits to certain users.
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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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They can run, and they can hide US network operators who can't locate their customers in the case of an emergency are facing fines of over $2m, having already been given 18-months grace to comply.â¦
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Google Outage on Major US ISP There was apparently a major (or minor, depending on how you look at it) Google outage on Tuesday which &#8216;blacked out&#8217; parts of the North East US and the Comcast Online ISP. The outage, which effected many in the Boston area, blacked out usage of all Google properties, including Gmail, Google [...]
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So much for redundant power supplies Some of the net's biggest websites went dark following power interruptions in San Francisco that are disrupted operations at co-location facility 365 Main.â¦
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BlackBerry mobile data services were disrupted Monday afternoon due to a problem with Research In Motion&#39;s infrastructure, apparently affecting customers of all major North American mobile operators, an AT&amp;T Wireless spokesman said.RIM told AT&amp;T the problem began at about 3:30 p.m. Eastern Time and that the Waterloo, Ontario, company was working to identify and solve the problem, said AT&amp;T spokesman Mark Siegel. RIM officials were not immediately available for comment.After 6 p.m. Eastern, users on a BlackBerry Internet message board began reporting that service had returned to normal.The popular smart phones rely on both a cellular network for transport and RIM&#39;s own network for pushing e-mail to end-users. Last month, problems with AT&amp;T&#39;s network disrupted service to some of its subscribers with BlackBerrys, as well as iPhone users.Several users on various mobile networks reported connection problems on Monday afternoon on the message board.BlackBerry users may not be able to send or receive messages, browse the Internet, or use the BlackBerry Internet Service Web site, according to a message from RIM that some users on the board posted. In addition, BlackBerry Enterprise Servers may not be able to connect to RIM&#39;s infrastructure, and carriers and resellers may not be able to create accounts or provision services, the notice said. The outage happened because &quot;a component of the network infrastructure is experiencing a service interruption.&quot;Zenprise, a maker of service management software that monitors BlackBerry service and notifies administrators of problems, detected the outage and notified customers at 3:23 p.m. Eastern, according to Ahmed Datoo, Zenprise&#39;s vice president of marketing. After running a series of tests, Zenprise determined that the root of the problem was in RIM&#39;s infrastructure. The Fremont, California, company, which counts about 100 enterprises and SMBs among its customers, has not determined the total scope of the outage. BlackBerry service for Zenprise&#39;s own customers has been going up and down during the outage, Datoo said.
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A major provider of credit card authorizations for Internet retailers was struggling to remain online yesterday. Authorize.net, of Bellevue, Wash., purchased this year by Lightbridge Inc. of Burlington, has been subjected since last week to ''denial of service&quot; attacks, in which vandals try to knock computers out of commission by overwhelming them with data. ''We are working diligently to minimize ...
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The popular file-sharing service may be forced to shut down if it can not control the uploading of pirated music to its service after a German court ruling.
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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 popular BitTorrent tracker is unresponsive for more than 24 hours. No official word or statement has come from the Demonoid.com administrators, but a Dutch news website reports the Canadian Recording Industry Association, or CRIA, is responsible for the downtime.
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A critical hole in Windows XP firewall in Service Pack 2 makes computers accessible to anyone on the network. The configuration problem only affects dial-up users: some dialling software mistakes the entire
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About 70,000 BT business broadband customers have had trouble connecting to the internet on Friday due to a technical fault.
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Overture for update error don't impress Chinese customers whose systems were downed.
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Are you a Comcast customer? Your bandwidth hogging days may be limited.
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Haven't we heard that before? A three-hour outage that left many BlackBerry users unable to send and receive email was the result of an upgrade gone wrong.â¦