Yahoo responds to reports of site outages
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Blog: The site's downage was not actually downage, representatives say, but rather a network carrier issue that slowed it down.
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Battered by slow revenue growth and the popularity of social networking Web sites, Yahoo! Inc. is poised to lay off hundreds of workers, according to published reports
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PEOPLE WHO who lose their web connection suffer from withdrawal and feelings of loss, frustration, and disconnectedness, according to a report released by Yahoo.
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It&#39;s an ill wind, as they say. If you believe the word on the anti-spam lists, Hurricanes Charley, Frances and Ivan have all disrupted one of Florida&#39;s major internet businesses: spamming.
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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's part. Most affected users reported problems on Tuesday and Wednesday, although some still experienced problems on Friday. In seemingly all cases, users could access their accounts but found that the Analytics dashboard reported significantly reduced or even zero traffic to their sites. Google Analytics, a free service, is used by organizations of all sizes as well as individuals to track traffic and analyze usage of their Web sites. For Web publishers, the information Analytics and similar services collect is critical for decisions regarding their sites' design, content, and ad space. Vivek Puri, who uses Analytics to monitor his sites, StartupSquad and StartupSquad India, suffered an outage of about 24 hours between Tuesday and Wednesday, and about 20 hours between Thursday and Friday. As disruptive as the service interruption was, Puri felt equally annoyed by what he perceived as Google's lack of communication regarding the problem. It's not the first time he has been upset at Google for this reason. "They need to inform users when a service is down and when it comes back up, and give people status updates," Puri, who is based in Princeton, New Jersey, said in an interview. "There's no communication from Google about what's going on there." Indeed, over the past four days, users started at least three active threads regarding this issue on the official Google Analytics Help discussion forum, which is maintained by Google. At press time, Google officials hadn't left a single message in any of the threads. When queried about the matter by IDG News Service, a Google spokeswoman acknowledged on Friday afternoon that there had been a problem. "Earlier this week, there was a reporting delay within some Google Analytics accounts due to system maintenance. No data was lost, and reporting is back to normal now," she said. She didn't immediately say whether Google informed Analytics users in any way about this system maintenance, before, during, or after the work, nor how many users were affected. Google didn't post any information about this maintenance work, nor the subsequent service disruptions, in its official Google Analytics blog, which, at press time, had last been updated on May 21 with an unrelated posting. Judging by the feedback from affected users, it seems Google hasn't reached out to them so far regarding this issue. "It would have been nice for Google to inform us about this and to not have had to pull my hair out trying to figure out what was wrong, thinking the problem had been caused by me," said Dean Peters. Peters, a software company product manager in Cary, North Carolina, uses Analytics for sites he maintains on his own time as personal projects, including HealYourChurchWebSite.com, and suffered a 12-hour stats blackout on Tuesday. His frustration is echoed in many of the blog and forum postings. "Come on Google, after the last couple of days it's time to start telling us what's going on and when we might expect normal service again. How's about a post in the blog at least admitting there's an issue, instead of keeping quiet and pretending everything's fine," wrote a user in Analytics' official Help forum on Friday morning. "It would be nice if the folks @ Google acknowledged the problem on one of their many blogs - like say the official Google Analytics blog? A status/outage page would be even better. It's a pain in the ass to have to hunt down groups like this to confirm that you're not the only one suffering from the problem," another peeved user wrote in another thread on the same forum. Google is a major proponent of the software-as-a-service model, where vendors host the applications that they sell, lease, or provide for free to their customers. This business model is an alternative to the traditional packaged-software approach in which customers install and maintain software on their premises. However, one of the big question marks regarding the hosted model involves availability problems, such as the one that affected Analytics this week and that has affected other Google services, including Gmail and Blogger. "All we want is a dependable service. I know it's free, but that doesn't mean it shouldn't be dependable," Puri said.
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The FBI system used to conduct instant background checks on would-be gun buyers suffered several software-related outages on Sunday and Monday but has since been repaired.
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I love Twitter, but there have been a lot of problems, and this is too much. They're taking it down tonight, for two hours, and we're hot on a big story, and it's developing -- on Twitter. This seems like a bad night for Twitter to go to sleep. (But there probably never is a good night.) I don't think the Twitter guys really understand how much we're doing with their service.  It's been going down a lot lately. And while other people have been complaining about it losing posts, I had never seen it lose one, until yesterday, and now it's losing them regularly, for me too. Read the first three words of this post again.  They raised $5 million, it seems now it's time for them to get the bugs out, hire some people who really understand scaling, if necessary re-implement the system from the ground up. Do whatever is needed to make it as reliable as the other tools we depend on. We need Twitter to work. It's not a fun experiment for us, we're using it.  Jack, Ev, Biz, Fred -- please take note. Postscript: The announcement changed, now they're saying it'll be down on Sunday night. Much better. Thanks!
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Yahoo Inc. YHOO.O is offering refunds   to customers of its new Internet streaming package of National   Football League games after a technological problem caused   access problems on Sunday.
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Web sites for President Bush's campaign and the Republican National Committee suffered outages for several hours on Wednesday.
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Gregory Szorc writes today about a fact that's only recently come true in PHP's handling of errors - it seems that it now returns proper HTTP status codes when a problem comes up.   If it encounters a serious error, like a parse error, it just stops and there is nothing you can do about it. If this happens on a hosted web site, you get a blank page served with the HTTP status code of 200. Completely useless to remote connections.   This fix will be included in the next version of PHP - the upcoming 5.2.4 release.
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(InfoWorld) - Yahoo suffered availability problems on Friday that affected its home page as well as some of its other Web sites and services for a sustained period of time. Yahoo, which has some of the most popular sites and online services worldwide, first experienced problems on its home page at around 5:50 a.m. U.S. Pacific Time, said Dan Berkowitz, senior communications director at Keynote Systems, a global provider of mobile and Internet test and measurement services. Yahoo.com's operations began getting back to normal at around 7:15 a.m., said Berkowitz. At its worst point, Yahoo.com's availability dropped to around 60 percent, meaning that 4 out of 10 visitors couldn't access the page, he said, citing data collected from Keynote's global network of monitoring computers, which check the availability of the world's most popular sites. Yahoo didn't reply to requests for comments about the problems. NetCraft also detected the problems, saying in a short note that the intensity of the performance issues varied among geographical areas and also among Yahoo services. "The Yahoo.com home page was inaccessible for several hours from our London monitoring station and responded more slowly than usual from several locations in the U.S. Yahoo Search appears to have experienced lengthier availability problems than the home page and other Yahoo services," NetCraft reported. A variety of bloggers also reported trouble Friday morning accessing other Yahoo services like Yahoo Messenger and Yahoo Mail as well as other Yahoo sites like the Flickr photo sharing site and the news aggregation site Yahoo News. Ideally, Yahoo and other major Internet players would never face Web site outages, but they all do, said industry analyst Greg Sterling from Sterling Market Intelligence. The key is to make sure that significant availability problems happen infrequently. Otherwise, users and advertisers get worried and upset, he said. Yahoo's problems on Friday probably affected fewer users than usual because many people are taking time off in the U.S. and are away from their computers due to the July 4th Independence Day holiday, Berkowitz said.
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Coimbatore: Have you noticed a rise in the number of unsolicited junk e-mails or spam in recent days? Most Net users would have, particularly after a holiday or when the system had remained shut for a couple of days.
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Falls off the internet the best place to go for something awful - is recovering from Domain Name Server problems yesterday that left the site unaccessible for many users.â¦
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Service interruptions reported across the U.S.
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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.
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News.com: Yahoo fixed two flaws in its free mail system that could have allowed a malicious user to read a victim&#39;s browser cookies and change the appearance of some pages, Yahoo said Thursday.
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Complaints that online store is down, among others.