Some Alertra customers are facing mixed emotions this week as Hurricane Sandy has taken out their websites. We’re assuming these customers had a sense of security, knowing that they would be notified if their websites did indeed go down.
As we predicted the other day, Hurricane Sandy has taken down a number of websites. Some of the sites are doing their job and are keeping consumers updated.
You may be smiling in sunny Los Angeles or enduring the chill of the coming winter in Chicago as the East Coast huddles down for the coming storm that is soon to be upon them.
With all of the outages that occurred this week due to Amazon’s server issues we’ve discussed taking the appropriate measures to make your customers happy and what some companies did (or failed to do) in that regard.
Maybe we’re being a little melodramatic, but we’re not the only ones who feel like the Amazon outage caused a death (albeit a temporary one) of the Internet on Monday.
It seems that a number of high-profile websites were affected by the most recent Amazon cloud server outage – one of five outages experienced by the company in the past year and a half.
Yesterday we told you how some of the sites that are hosted by Amazon’s cloud services went down due to “degraded performance for a small number of EBS volumes in a single Availability Zone”. At least that’s the reason Amazon is giving.
When the outage issue arose it wasn’t a widespread problem. It was a small problem that affected some of Amazon’s EC2 services in North Virginia. However, that small outage quickly turned into a full-blown problem.
Halloween is almost here. It’s a time for chills, thrills and nightmares. Crazy Domains customers, however, are currently experiencing the kind of nightmare that isn’t fun or thrilling.
True to their word, the cyber-terrorists have not stopped their attacks on major U.S. financial institutions. Capital One, a leading credit card provider, is one of the latest targets of the increasingly widespread attacks.
Every website experiences downtime. When it’s your site that is down, it can be hard to remember that you’re not the only one who goes through the frustration and stress of downtime.
The LA ShoeGirl blog and website has been experiencing some technical difficulties that took the site down and then brought it back up, although it’s still not fully functional.
Sometimes it’s not terrorists taking sites down in cyber-attacks. Sometimes it’s governments taking sites down in an effort to thwart seeding efforts on torrent websites. What is seeding, you may ask?
Chunk Host, a provider of virtual server services, was recently the target of a DDoS attack. The services did indeed go down for a while, but the company was on the ball and took measures to correct the issue quickly while communicating their efforts to customers.
It seems that Fasthosts has been experiencing some significant issues with downtime today. The company, based in the UK, provides web hosting and email services.
We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again – when a website or service goes down, you have to communicate with your customers or your reputation is going to take a hit.