Tuesday, February 23, 2010

WordPress outage blacks out millions of blogs

More than 10 million blogs were dragged offline for almost two hours following a massive outage at WordPress.com.
The popular blogging platform was down for 110 minutes due to a problem at the company's data centre. The outage downed 10.2 million blogs and cost them more than 5.5 million page views, according to Wordpress.

"We are still gathering details, but it appears an unscheduled change to a core router by one of our data centre providers messed up our network in a way we haven't experienced before, and broke the site," reads a post on the WordPress site. Read More

Courtesy: RTE News

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