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Don’t panic! It’s an Internet outage
As we come to rely more and more on cloud-based services (a fancy way of saying we put our digital treasures and junk online) it becomes more of a problem when those services become unreachable.
Just as Amazon, whose EC2 web-hosting service, which powers many popular websites, has been struggling to keep things together since yesterday. Add to that a two-day outage on the PlayStation Network (which might be caused by hackers with a beef against Sony), preventing gamers from downloading movies and accessing game updates (or playing certain games online).
So what should you do if you’re trying to reach a site that appears to be broken? First, check out this list of sites affected by the Amazon outage.
You can also visit Down for Everyone Or Just Me?, a website that tells you whether the outage you’re seeing is on your end or if a website is indeed down for the count.
If you’re an Austin company experiencing problems, let our business reporter Kirk Ladendorf know for a story he’s working on. You can e-mail him at kladendorf@statesman.com or call 445-3622.
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By J
April 25, 2011 10:06 AM | Link to this
As of Sunday night, the Playstation network was still out. Yikes.