All the stories tagged with downtime
Fix released for Skype downtime
05/26/2011, Earlier today, we reported about an outage that a number of Skype users were facing. Apparently the downtime was due to a corruption that occurred in those users’ systems, though it wasn’t explained how such a thing happened. Anyway, Skype [...]
Blogger is back
05/13/2011, After over 20 hours of downtime, Blogger, Google’s popular blogging service is now back up. Earlier today (yesterday for some of you folks), Blogger was taken offline due to reports of bloggers and readers not being able to access blogs [...]
Netflix apologizes for downtime
03/24/2011, A few days ago, Netflix’s video streaming went down for a few hours, and while it wasn’t explained what caused the problem (technical issues was the vague response), the service was up and running again at night. However it seems [...]
Netflix is down
03/22/2011, Although we are not sure when exactly Netflix went down, we have noticed that the web video service has not been operating normally for at least the past 3 hours, and probably more (as seen from San Francisco). The DVD [...]
Users having problems logging into Twitter
03/16/2011, For folks who are wondering why they can’t access their favorite micro-blogging service, Twitter has just posted an update on the official Twitter status page saying that users may have problems loading the site. It wasn’t mentioned what the cause [...]
AOL Mail is down
01/25/2011, According to the latest reports from CNet, AOL Mail is suffering from some issues that prevent users from logging onto their accounts. When it first started, AOL pointed out that it was a scheduled maintenance that took longer than expected, [...]
Google Apps Downtime: Never Again
01/14/2011, It looks like Google Apps is planning to overthrow offline solutions like Microsoft Office with their latest move – Google has just updated their contract concerning Google Apps and it looks like they will have no more downtime from here [...]
Skype delivers post mortem on recent outage
12/29/2010, Skype did promise to work on a post mortem on their recent worldwide outage, and they made good on it. Apparently, the whole fiasco happened simply because of a bug in a slightly outdated Windows version of Skype. It seemed [...]
Skype downtime clarified – problem with supernodes
12/23/2010, For those of you who are affected by Skype’s downtime, fret not, help is on the way. According to a blog post on the official Skype blog, Peter Parkes, Skype’s blogger-in-chief announced that the downtime is caused by their supernodes [...]
