All Posts Tagged With: "downtime"

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Twitter Blog Confirms Downtime Issues

Having a look at the official Twitter blog, Twitter has announced that they have detected errant API usage through their Jabber resources.
We found an errant API project eating way too much of our Jabber (a flavor of instant messenger) resources. This activity (which we’ve corrected) had an affect of overloading our main database, resulting [...]

May 23rd, 2008 | Jeffro | 5 comments | Continued
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WordPress.com Follies

If you happen to notice WordPress.com loading very slowly or perhaps not at all today, you are not alone. Because of issues within the data center housing WordPress.com, they are experiencing some downtime and at other times, just slow loading of the website. I’ve also noticed Akismet loading slowly and then allowing spam messages through [...]

February 13th, 2008 | Jeffro | 0 comments | Continued
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Skype Blaming Redmond For Outage

After initially telling users that the downtime experienced last week was due to an authentication glitch, Skype is now blaming Microsoft for the downtime. Here is the supposedly real reason why their service went down:
“The disruption was initiated by a massive restart of our user’s computers across the globe within a very short timeframe as [...]

August 21st, 2007 | Jeffro | 0 comments | Continued
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