News: On MySpace, YouTube, Wikipedia outages
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Found on: Cnet.com
If we were given to conspiracy theories, we might speculate that someone was out to take down the big guns of Web 2.0. In the last month, MySpace, YouTube and Wikipedia have all suffered major outages--the latter two coming just in the last week.
Sinister elements aside, the simple truth is that successful social-networking sites are like any other large online enterprises in at least one regard: They're going to experience glitches like this, just as their dot-com boom ancestors did, especially if they're lucky enough to draw the kind of traffic that can choke a server.
Way back in 1998, Amazon experienced a blackout that brought out Cassandras all over the mainstream press. The e-tailer was still standing once the hand-wringing orgy had ended, as was eBay, which suffered far more disruptions in those days. (Amazon had an outage just yesterday, in fact, but it didn't provoke widespread hue and cry.)
Found on: Cnet.com
If we were given to conspiracy theories, we might speculate that someone was out to take down the big guns of Web 2.0. In the last month, MySpace, YouTube and Wikipedia have all suffered major outages--the latter two coming just in the last week.Sinister elements aside, the simple truth is that successful social-networking sites are like any other large online enterprises in at least one regard: They're going to experience glitches like this, just as their dot-com boom ancestors did, especially if they're lucky enough to draw the kind of traffic that can choke a server.
Way back in 1998, Amazon experienced a blackout that brought out Cassandras all over the mainstream press. The e-tailer was still standing once the hand-wringing orgy had ended, as was eBay, which suffered far more disruptions in those days. (Amazon had an outage just yesterday, in fact, but it didn't provoke widespread hue and cry.)
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