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Keeping an Eye Out When Sites Go Down

Posted by timothy on from the he-said-go-down dept.

miller60 writes "Are major web sites going down more often? Or are outages simply more noticeable? The New York Times looks at the recent focus on downtime at services like Twitter, and the services that have sprung up to monitor outages. When a site goes down, word spreads rapidly, fueled by blogs and forums. But there have also been a series of outages with real-world impact, affecting commodities exchanges, thousands of web sites and online stores."

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  1. But what happens by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    when the site you're using to monitor whether a site is down goes down?

    PANIC AT THE DISCO!!

  2. Re:no... by Nick+Fel · · Score: 5, Funny

    I've seen Google down. Not completely unreachable, but not working. It was terrifying.

  3. Thanks, Grisoft by FilterMapReduce · · Score: 4, Funny

    Are major web sites going down more often?

    A bit more often now thanks to AVG?

  4. Slashdot uncertainty principle by CrazyJim1 · · Score: 5, Funny

    We're not sure if the sites are already dead, or if the observers changed the outcome.

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  5. Re:no... by Opportunist · · Score: 2, Funny

    Just because you searched for "sex" and "porn" and didn't get any results but linkpages and squatters doesn't mean the search engine's broken, ya know? :)

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