Keeping an Eye Out When Sites Go Down

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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[Nick Fel]

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

Thanks, Grisoft

[FilterMapReduce]

Are major web sites going down more often?

A bit more often now thanks to AVG?

Slashdot uncertainty principle

[CrazyJim1]

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