Amazon, Google, and Microsoft Go Down

[Draigun]

"The outage, which reportedly affected most of Google's services worldwide, led to a staggering 40% drop in global Internet traffic (pageviews)..."

"Amazon.com, the website of the world's largest online retailer, went down for about 15 minutes on Monday in a rare outage for many users across the United States and Canada."

http://www.businessinsider.com/google-goes-down-2013-8
http://www.businessinsider.com/microsof ... age-2013-8
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/08/ ... UT20130819


Google has over one million webservers around the world, so what caused the outage probably relates to the Domain Name System (DNS) Google uses.

As for the reasons why these three sites went down at around the same weekend, is haunting to say the least. What's more, the companies refuse to explain what happened.

[THEWULFMAN]

While I don't know if I agree with the choice, but I totally understand not saying why it happened. If it was an attack on their systems, the last thing you want is to tell the world "we're weak and susceptible to attack LOL COME AT US BRO" and then we all suffer for it. They'll fix the problem, and maybe then tell us.

I trust Google. Which, if anyone knows me even sorta well you'll know I have an avid hate for big money and most corporations nowadays suck total ass. The exceptions being Google, and Valve. That's about it.

[[m'kay]]

Told you [m'kay] they put fluoride in water, now look what's happened.

[WD-40]

I wonder just how much that affects the Stock Market...

[CommanderOtto]

conspiracy theories are probably going to come out of this lol

[11_Panama_]

conspiracy theories are probably going to come out of this lol

Yeah, like terrorists stealing broadband... it probably happens everyday but we are not told.

[Pootus]

Personally......I blame Fred.

Just saying is all......

[[JOG]WorldFear]

conspiracy theories are probably going to come out of this lol

Welcum ta MURICA!

[-)G(-Mawk]

Sry guys, pushed the wrong button while at work.