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A Day of Outages: Amazon, Twitter, Disqus, WinExtra

Author Frederic    Category blogging     Tags

carl-icahn.jpgToday must be one of those days on the net (and it’s not even Friday the 13th yet – that’s next Friday!).

Amazon is still recovering from a large, international outage, Twitter is down and out (like that’s something new – but even istwitterdown.com is down right now, too), Disqus suffered some outages last night, and even my friend Steven Hodson’s WinExtra is offline right now.

I gather this is a good reminder about how cloud computing is prone to suffer these kinds of outages etc. etc. but really, it’s also a good reminder that while we tend to write and talk a lot about the outward, consumer facing side of the web, we do tend to ignore the plumbing behind it all – until it breaks.

I always feel like I’m a control freak when I want to host everything on my own site, but I did give in and install Disqus for comments – the convenience for my readers and for myself just outweighed the cost of a potential problem with Disqus. Even if they shut down at some point, I just turn on the old comment system again and move on.

But then, my email is exclusively on Gmail – and I don’t make backups of it, at all…

57 Comments to “A Day of Outages: Amazon, Twitter, Disqus, WinExtra”

  • ?? April 4, 2009 at 4:10 am

    Have to say I do agree. Things like this just are what they are.

  • syntaxerror April 10, 2009 at 3:39 pm

    wow. Disqus is also good.. Thanks for sharing.. I am new in the discuss..

  • Learn Forex April 11, 2009 at 12:55 am

    Disqus is the best! =)

  • Online Marketing Company April 13, 2009 at 8:51 pm

    Same with me, I don't keep back ups for my comments, if it disqus goes down (far from happening), I might turn to intense debate..

  • GED test April 13, 2009 at 9:33 pm

    So why these it happens..Try to use the safe items hereafter..Try to migrate from not working sites..

  • cheap dvd duplication April 18, 2009 at 5:23 am

    Honestly disqus is the best. I really like it

  • Miami SEO Company April 20, 2009 at 1:04 am

    Nothing is better than disqus commenting system.. it really dominates big time.!!

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