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Go Daddy says yesterday's downtime, which caused extensive downtime for customers, was caused by corrupted data in router tables, rather than an external attack or hack.
Domain registrar Go Daddy is experiencing a major domain name service (DNS) outage, which is impairing access to many customer web sites. Go Daddy manages 52 million domain names, meaning a DNS outage could affect millions of web sites across the...
The city of Seattle will turn off many public services for five days over Labor Day weekend so it can repair the power system supporting its primary data center, Seattle Mayor Michael McGinn said Thursday.
Wikipedia experienced a one-hour outage early Monday when it lost network connectivity due to a fiber cut between its data centers in Tampa and Ashburn, Virginia. Despite its low-budget approach to supporting one of the world's busiest sites, the...
A feature designed to prevent network outages caused last week's downtime for the Windows Azure cloud computing platform, Microsoft said yesterday as it released its root cause analysis of the incident.
Hosting.com said human error was responsible for a data center power outage that left more than 1,100 customers without service. The downtime occurred as the company was conducting preventive maintenance on a UPS system in the company's data...
A misconfigured network device caused Thursday's outage for the Windows Azure cloud computing platform, Microsoft said Friday. The downtime left the Azure Compute service unavailable to cstomers in some parts of Europe for more than two hours.
Microsoft's Windows Azure cloud computing platform is experiencing a significant service outage in western Europe, the company said this morning. Azure compute services are largely unavailable for customers in the region.
A Seattle-area data center operated by SoftLayer lost Internet connectivity this afternoon, leaving customer sites offline for about 45 minutes. The data center never lost power and servers continued to run, but had no connectivity.
The city of Calgary is recovering from the impact of a data center fire that crippled city services and delayed hundreds of surgeries at local hospitals. The explosion and fire last Wednesday in a Shaw Communications facility knocked out both the...