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Fisher Plaza Datacenter Fire

admin — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 03:16:40 +0000

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 Power Outage

admin — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 03:15:33 +0000

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

Snapnames Outage

admin — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 03:10:20 +0000

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

Another Network Outage at Dreamhost

admin — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 03:04:46 +0000

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