Web Performance, Branding, and Social Media
In: Uncategorized
22 Sep 2008In the last few months, I have talked on a couple of occasions on how an outage can affect a brand, be it personal or corporate [here and here].
Yesterday my servers experienced a 11-hour network outage due to a broken upstream BGP route.
It’s sometimes scary to see how worn the cobbler’s shoes are.
In: GrabPERF
22 Sep 2008Today, there was a network outage that affected the servers from September 21 2008 15:30 GMT until September 22 2008 01:45 GMT.
The data from this period has been cut and hourly averages have been re-calculated.
We apologize for the inconvenience.
In my presentations and consultations on Web performance, I emphasize the importance of a correctly configured DNS system with the phrase: “If people can’t resolve your hostname, your site is dead in the water”.
Yesterday, it appears that the large anti-virus and security firm Sophos discovered this lesson the hard way.
Of course hindsight is perfect, so [...]
It’s the first day back after the last long weekend of the summer. There is a a great amount of news flooding the intertubes, and what happens?
TechCrunch has a small issue.
It’s likely they’ll be back soon, but it’s still an interesting thing to see.
Update – 09:17 EDT (13:17 GMT)
TechCrunch is back up as of 08:49 [...]
In: GrabPERF
9 Aug 2008Between August 08 2008 18:00GMT and August 09 2008 03:00GMT, GrabPERF had a network-related outage at the hosting facility.
Many thanks to the Technorati team for working hard to resolve this complex issue, which eventually turned out to be a loose fiber-cable.
Data from the time period has been cut, so no one’s stats should be affected.
I [...]
In: GrabPERF| Web Performance
5 Nov 2007mon.itor.us, a service which also provides free Web performance measurement services, appears to be having a wee problem.
The most recent GrabPERF data on this site is available here. The issue may be corrected by the time you look at the data.
I don’t wish suffering like this on anyone. GrabPERF had it’s own 3-4 day outage [...]
In: GrabPERF| Web Performance
6 Jul 2007Netcraft noted that Yahoo encountered a bit of a headache today. So I fired up my handy-dandy little performance system and had a look.
Although for an organization and infrastructure the size of Yahoo’s this may have been a big event, in my experience, this was a "stuff happens on the Internet" sort of thing.
Move along [...]
In: GrabPERF
29 Jan 2007Our colocation facility will be undergoing a power outage tonight/tomorrow morning. I apologize for this, but I’m not the only one it’s affecting, and no one is happy about it.
UPDATE: Power Outage has been re-scheduled. I will post another notice/banner when this date has been passed on to me.
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Citizens Bank Outage
Originally uploaded by spierzchala.
Some days, your bank needs to get smacked around.
This is one of those times.
What is going on?
In: Life
28 Sep 2006Judging by the flood of mail coming into my account for the last 15 minutes, there was an outage with the GMAIL SMTP servers sometime overnight or early this morning.
Anyone know what happened?
Technorati Tags: GMAIL, SMTP, GMAIL+Outage