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.
