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The Year In Downtime

Posted by samzenpus on from the down-but-not-out dept.

1sockchuck writes "Lightning, floods, car crashes, and coding snafus had starring roles in major Internet outages of 2010. Data Center Knowledge reviews the year's business downtime, including outages for banking and e-commerce sites and several incidents that knocked state government services offline. Meanwhile, Pingdom focuses on downtime for major social media sites and Wikileaks. Then there's the guy who got drunk and shot up a server."

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  1. Lack of funding by DigiShaman · · Score: 5, Interesting

    And then you have the cheap bastards and/or business without money. Time and materials are often needed to perform preventive maintenance. So, I'd say were seeing a lot more reactive vs proactive support as a result.

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    Life is not for the lazy.
  2. Unimpressed by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    These sites should be embarrassed. My wife had 100% uptime in 2010. Did not go down once.

  3. Add Skype by Luthair · · Score: 4, Informative

    to the list, apparently today they're running into problems. I've had Skype crash while idle a first for me, intermittent connections and now BBC is covering it.