As millions of people across the nation just wanted to relax and watch some movies on Netflix this Christmas Eve, they suddenly find the service is down. The reason for the Netflix outage?
We’ve talked quite a bit about the new form of terrorism in the past couple of months. As cyber-terrorists target major U.S. financial institutions, you’d think that a bank as big as Wells Fargo would have been doing everything they could to avoid the ramifications of a DDoS attack.
Whether you agree with the ethics of the site or not, one must applaud the way the site handles an outage. It seems that no matter how hard they try, even the authorities can’t keep Pirate Bay down for long.
Over the past few months we’ve published a few posts about finding the right hosting service. We’ve explained that there really is a big difference between an uptime rate of 95 percent and a rate of 99.9 percent.
We all know that Anonymous has become somewhat of a vigilante justice organization. What many don’t realize is that you don’t have to do something related to the World Wide Web to get them to turn their eyes your way.
One would think that an Internet giant like Google would have their game together when it comes to providing uninterrupted services to the general public.
Many people use proxy servers to hide their personal IPs when they are surfing the Internet. What some Internet surfers don’t’ realize is that websites can do the very same thing.
We recently informed you of the outages faced by Tumblr and Facebook. While the Facebook outage only lasted 20 minutes, it appears that Tumblr is still down for the count, more than a day later, and Tumblr users are getting frustrated.
In the past we’ve talked about using Social Media sites to communicate with your customers when your website goes down. We’ve touted the benefits of Facebook, Tumblr and Twitter.
In past weeks we’ve discussed a number of DDoS attacks that have taken websites down – websites that should have been protected from such things considering the nature of the sites.
We’ve discussed in past weeks that Anonymous has become what some would call the “Robin Hood” of the Internet, while others may call them advocators of vigilante Internet justice.
Within the pages of this blog we talk a lot about maximizing your website uptime and what to do when the inevitable downtime occurs. What many of our readers wonder is just how much downtime is acceptable.
Back in October we discussed how it is possible for your website to go down through no fault of your own. When things go awry at your hosting company, you either have backup hosting in place or Tumblr pages and other social media tools to work with or you are at the mercy of your site host to get things back up and running in a timely manner.
We’ve discussed in past posts that website downtime can and will cost your company money. The question is, just how much will your planned downtime cost you?
Throughout the pages of this blog we have mentioned that website downtime is inevitable. It’s not a question of “if” – it’s merely a matter of when. Why do we assume your site will go down at one point or another?
We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again – website downtime isn’t a matter of “if”, it’s merely a matter of “when”. Throughout the pages of this blog we’ve given our customers and the public quite a bit of advice regarding how to prevent downtime, how to minimize downtime damage and how to prepare for the inevitable.
