Comments on: The major incidents on the internet in 2007 http://royal.pingdom.com/2007/12/27/the-major-incidents-on-the-internet-in-2007/ Ramblings and tech news from the Pingdom team Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:34:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: When automatic software updates go horribly wrong http://royal.pingdom.com/2007/12/27/the-major-incidents-on-the-internet-in-2007/comment-page-1/#comment-445025 When automatic software updates go horribly wrong Mon, 03 May 2010 14:01:00 +0000 http://royal.pingdom.com/?p=229#comment-445025 [...] August 2007: Skype was down and unavailable for almost two days after a security update to Windows caused a massive amount of Windows computers to restart in a very short amount of time. Considering Skype has hundreds of millions of users, you can imagine the impact this had. You may remember it referred to as The Great Skype Outage (we listed it as one of the major outages on the Internet in 2007). [...] [...] August 2007: Skype was down and unavailable for almost two days after a security update to Windows caused a massive amount of Windows computers to restart in a very short amount of time. Considering Skype has hundreds of millions of users, you can imagine the impact this had. You may remember it referred to as The Great Skype Outage (we listed it as one of the major outages on the Internet in 2007). [...]

]]> By: Cloud Economics http://royal.pingdom.com/2007/12/27/the-major-incidents-on-the-internet-in-2007/comment-page-1/#comment-318719 Cloud Economics Sat, 28 Feb 2009 04:50:43 +0000 http://royal.pingdom.com/?p=229#comment-318719 [...] story is not an uncommon one. In 2007, both Sears and Macy’s sites collapsed under the traffic of Black Friday (Pingdom, 2007), and 2008 welcomes the dawn of the “Twitter [...] [...] story is not an uncommon one. In 2007, both Sears and Macy’s sites collapsed under the traffic of Black Friday (Pingdom, 2007), and 2008 welcomes the dawn of the “Twitter [...]

]]> By: Mosso: The Hosting Cloud » Blog Archive » Cloud Economics http://royal.pingdom.com/2007/12/27/the-major-incidents-on-the-internet-in-2007/comment-page-1/#comment-317628 Mosso: The Hosting Cloud » Blog Archive » Cloud Economics Fri, 20 Feb 2009 20:19:33 +0000 http://royal.pingdom.com/?p=229#comment-317628 [...] story is not an uncommon one. In 2007, both Sears and Macy’s sites collapsed under the traffic of Black Friday (Pingdom, 2007), and 2008 welcomes the dawn of the “Twitter [...] [...] story is not an uncommon one. In 2007, both Sears and Macy’s sites collapsed under the traffic of Black Friday (Pingdom, 2007), and 2008 welcomes the dawn of the “Twitter [...]

]]> By: Piyush http://royal.pingdom.com/2007/12/27/the-major-incidents-on-the-internet-in-2007/comment-page-1/#comment-142594 Piyush Fri, 25 Apr 2008 06:20:26 +0000 http://royal.pingdom.com/?p=229#comment-142594 Outages in 2007 were especially in the news because the world seems to be moving towards SaaS and now it is online data storage. Media people were just waiting to tear into NetSuite, Salesforce, and vendors who dispensed services online. Outages in 2007 were especially in the news because the world seems to be moving towards SaaS and now it is online data storage. Media people were just waiting to tear into NetSuite, Salesforce, and vendors who dispensed services online.

]]> By: Kia http://royal.pingdom.com/2007/12/27/the-major-incidents-on-the-internet-in-2007/comment-page-1/#comment-141715 Kia Thu, 24 Apr 2008 13:10:25 +0000 http://royal.pingdom.com/?p=229#comment-141715 Actually Blackberry had a couple of outages in 2007... Actually Blackberry had a couple of outages in 2007…

]]> By: SuzBlog » Blog Archive » Major internet outages and incidents of 2007 http://royal.pingdom.com/2007/12/27/the-major-incidents-on-the-internet-in-2007/comment-page-1/#comment-108756 SuzBlog » Blog Archive » Major internet outages and incidents of 2007 Sat, 22 Mar 2008 23:13:12 +0000 http://royal.pingdom.com/?p=229#comment-108756 [...] This post at Royal Pingdom is a bit old I guess but it is an amusing read about all the major internet mishaps of 2007 including Google deleting their own blog by accident. [...] [...] This post at Royal Pingdom is a bit old I guess but it is an amusing read about all the major internet mishaps of 2007 including Google deleting their own blog by accident. [...]

]]> By: Matt is a Dumbass http://royal.pingdom.com/2007/12/27/the-major-incidents-on-the-internet-in-2007/comment-page-1/#comment-94953 Matt is a Dumbass Thu, 06 Mar 2008 19:55:16 +0000 http://royal.pingdom.com/?p=229#comment-94953 Hey Matt! Blackberry was in 2008 not 2007! Hey Matt!
Blackberry was in 2008 not 2007!

]]> By: Matt http://royal.pingdom.com/2007/12/27/the-major-incidents-on-the-internet-in-2007/comment-page-1/#comment-76481 Matt Mon, 11 Feb 2008 17:59:25 +0000 http://royal.pingdom.com/?p=229#comment-76481 What about RIM's BlackBerry outage? Wasn't that in 2007 as well? I know we got a lot of calls to our helpdesk for a few days. What about RIM’s BlackBerry outage? Wasn’t that in 2007 as well? I know we got a lot of calls to our helpdesk for a few days.

]]> By: links for 2008-01-04 | gunnar.se http://royal.pingdom.com/2007/12/27/the-major-incidents-on-the-internet-in-2007/comment-page-1/#comment-53459 links for 2008-01-04 | gunnar.se Fri, 04 Jan 2008 21:20:41 +0000 http://royal.pingdom.com/?p=229#comment-53459 [...] The major incidents on the internet in 2007 [...] [...] The major incidents on the internet in 2007 [...]

]]> By: The Affiliate Truth http://royal.pingdom.com/2007/12/27/the-major-incidents-on-the-internet-in-2007/comment-page-1/#comment-49249 The Affiliate Truth Sat, 29 Dec 2007 20:30:50 +0000 http://royal.pingdom.com/?p=229#comment-49249 After working as a data center manager for 3 years I have to say that anything to do with power outages and system failures can be overcome if the companies have competent staff and a big budget! Aside from that there will always be the unexpected! Nice list! After working as a data center manager for 3 years I have to say that anything to do with power outages and system failures can be overcome if the companies have competent staff and a big budget! Aside from that there will always be the unexpected!

Nice list!

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