UPDATE 2: The official word for Twitter on today's two-hour outage: The cause of today’s outage came from within our data centers. What was noteworthy about today’s outage was the coincidental failure of two parallel systems at nearly the same time.
Twitter blamed an internal error for a large outage that took the popular microblogging service offline for a couple of hours today. The outage began after noon Eastern Time, before service was briefly restored to its 140 million+ users about an...
During times of either configuration problems or simply an outage, a search engine may see one of the following: DNS is unavailable, Network is not available, 500s in a large volume, and if a server is setup incorrectly, it could see redirects to...
No word yet on the outage on the official Google Docs blog. We're not sure the phrase "When clouds die" is part of the official Google server error message. The Register reported today that Google Docs disappeared in the cloud computing...
If you perform regular maintenance on your server, you should know that nothing will stop googlebot from coming by and trying to crawl your site during your outage window. Since the outage is temporary, Googlebot will plan to come back at a future...
A Microsoft spokesman said the outage began at about 8 a.m. So, one would assume the speller function has something to do with the outage. Nearly three hours later, I checked and got the home page, but trying a search gave me this error message:
