Fire caused a major outage at Fisher Plaza Datacenter, impacting sites including Dotster, Bing Travel, and Authorize.net. When Auth.net’s systems go down, a lot of companies hurt. There is no word on whether or not Dotster hosting went down.
Fisher Plaza Datacenter Outage

ServerBeach is experiencing a power outage at their Virginia datacenter. It not only affected customer servers, but also their My Serverbeach portal, and thus the ability to create tickets. I am going on 7 hours of downtime on my primary server. Even though ServerBeach was started by Rackspace, I sometimes wonder during outages such as this if they ever had anything in common.
ServerBeach Outage

For the third time in about a month Snapnames has had a major system outage. The two outages that were most noticeable happened on weekends. While the outage notification e-mail from Snapnames says it is a vendor issue, the real question is why these outages so frequently occur on weekends and which party is not handling the support relationship correctly.
Snapnames Outage

Looks like another multi-hour, prime time, core router problem at Dreamhost. At a certain point I would think that people would stop hosting with them. I have been migrating all my sites off of their servers since a series of server issues in the first half of this year. Unfortunately, it’s not always easy to move a website.
Major networking issues