Archive for the ‘outage’ Category

Twitter servers groaning under the load…


2010
05.10

Added to my little collection of screenshots from the big players  having capacity-related outages it looks like Twitter’s servers are groaning tonight. Is this something to do with  the #twitpocalypse ? The twitpocalypse was the hashtag for a semi-outage where twitter was showing everyone as having zero followers and following zero, which in turn was presumably related to them carrying out updates to fix a bug that allowed anyone to “make” someone follow them by tweeting anything followed by “accept username”.

Another outage


2009
11.20

My last post just reminded me of another outage I came across recently. I’m not sure if it’s reassuring or scary that the biggest of big boys get it wrong…

HM Revenue & Customs site down


2009
11.20

I was just asked by a client why they couldn’t access the HMRC website. The answer? It’s fallen over!

Their SSL cert is a self-signed one and expired at that, and the site itself is down…