Amazon is Down! - No redundancy while the shopping giant suffers a major outage
Written by Commodore64 on June 6, 2008 – 2:08 pm -That’s right kiddies!
Ask The Admin brought it to you first. Don’t go knocking on Amazon’s door today. Nobody will answer.
Could it be that the Shopping GIANT of the net doesn’t even have server redundancy worked out right for itself?
Anybody out there know anything about this? Doesn’t Amazon offer hosting services as well?
Hit us in the comments people. Any speculations? DOS Attack?
You tell us…
Hit the comments, aaaaaaand begin!
(Edit they are back up at 3:05pm… Maybe all the Admin’s were out to lunch? Almost an hour down that has to cost some serious moolah!)
(Double Edit: 3:14 back down again…)
3:32 When you can get to the site we have a pretty little note posted…
And now Rumors are flying that it is PS3 related here and here… Anyone?
C64 (the one you used to play Bruce Lee on)
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By AskTheAdmin on Jun 6, 2008 | Reply
My bad I guess i shouldn't have been playing with that dos tool :)
By Ninja Admin on Jun 6, 2008 | Reply
They were just up and now they are down again.Someone is getting fired today BIG time!
By SeriouslyPissedOff on Jun 6, 2008 | Reply
just went down on me in the middle of a transaction. What the fuck is going on here?
By Michael on Jun 6, 2008 | Reply
Oh yeah! anybody out there have any idea how much $$ Amazon stands to lose for an hour+ outage? Even better question, does anyone think this was done on purpose?
By Michael on Jun 6, 2008 | Reply
probably you and thousands of others. Keep us posted as to whether they were able to capture your transaction. They should formally apologize…
By Sara on Jun 6, 2008 | Reply
Me, I just want to BUY DIAPERS OMG.
By SolidSnake on Jun 6, 2008 | Reply
How about a shit load of monies including the dough i was going to spend on MY PS3!
By Michael on Jun 6, 2008 | Reply
I was actually just about to buy Asus' new EEE 900 laptop - that's $549 that newegg will get now instead of Amazon, or TheTechGeek.com.
By Linda Blowney on Jun 6, 2008 | Reply
The CNN site says, “Several Dow Jones employees in various locations were unable to call up the site.”
What were those Down Jones employees doing trying to get onto Amazon on a Friday afternoon, hmmmmm?
By Michael on Jun 6, 2008 | Reply
Perfect day for shopping, even at Dow Jones. Hey bodyless corporate heads are people too
By George on Jun 6, 2008 | Reply
Amazon is back online.
George - http://worldonblog.com/ “>http://worldonblog.com/
By George on Jun 6, 2008 | Reply
Amazon is back online.
George - http://worldonblog.com/ “>http://worldonblog.com/
By Michael on Jun 6, 2008 | Reply
Thanks for the update! Though I have heard that its still intermittent for some.