Hi all,
This may be of interest to some of you.
Amazon.com's U.S. Site Is Down
Amazon.com appears to be suffering a major outage.
Nancy Gohring, IDG News Service
Friday, June 06, 2008 12:30 PM PDT
Amazon.com appears to be suffering a major outage on Friday, with
visitors to the site seeing a page that says: Http/1.1 Service
Unavailable.
It's not clear how long the outage has been happening, but it
appears to be affecting only the U.S. site. Sites outside of
the U.S., including Amazon.ca, Amazon.co.uk., Amazon.de,
Amazon.co.jp and Amazon.fr are working properly.
Amazon.com did not immediately reply to a request for comment
about the outage but it has posted a brief note in an online
forum. "We are currently investigating an issue that has
impacted the availability of the Amazon.com website. Engineers
are actively engaged in resolving this issue and we will provide
an update once the issue is resolved. We appreciate your
patience during this time," according to the note.
Some gamers are suggesting that the sale of the PS3 game, Metal
Gear Solid 4, may have crashed the site, although it's unlikely
that they would have generated enough volume to bring down the
site.
Ironically, a page with Amazon's outage policy for people selling
items in its Marketplace is live. It says that if the outage
lasts more than 30 minutes but less than or equal to two hours,
listings are extended for twice the time of the outage. An
outage that lasts longer than two hours gives a listing an
additional 24 hours, the site says.
Amazon has had outages before, though rarely. In 2004, the site
was down for four or five hours, in the midst of year-end holiday
shopping season. A two-hour outage hit in 2006.
More recently, Amazon has had some outages in its hosted
offerings, Amazon Web Services.
Thanks to PCWorld.com for this info.
Have a great day,
Alex
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