Tag Archive: downtime

Aug
11

GMail Down

In the latest in my ongoing series of Major websites experiencing outages, GMail has been down for at least the last hour. Google’s Mail service is excellent and over all I’ve always been pleased with it. Their servers are redundant, I don’t have problems with lost email messages, and the spam filtering is second to …

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Jun
19

Facebook – whoops there goes another major site!

Another major website comes crashing down!

Two weeks ago I posted about Amazon.com being down for hours, tonight, another major website has gone down without warning, and has a very ugly error message, just like Amazon did. At this time the error message (shown on the right) has been up for at least 20 minutes with no sign of repair, in …

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Jun
06

Amazon Still down, money down too

Updated Amazon Error Message

I previously reported that Amazon.com was down with a non-descriptive error message. After almost 2 of downtime it seems they’ve decided to have a friendlier error message, so it seems at least they are acknowledging that something is wrong now, but it is still down. According to CNet, this outage could be costing Amazon as …

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Apr
22

Server woes

Well I previously posted today a number of things that were wrong with the week, now I’ve got some more. It turns out the hosting provider, fastservers.net, that hosts the server I’m sharing with some other companies, is nearly doubling their prices effective next month. So now we’ve got to get a new server set …

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