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The social network site LinkedIn had two hour-long outages last week, one on Thursday and one on Sunday.
The first outage, on November 13 at 10:06 p.m. EST, lasted one hour and five minutes. According to a message displayed on the website the downtime was due to planned maintenance.
LinkedIn, the popular social network for professionals, has had several periods of downtime lately. The last one came last evening (US time), and lasted just over an hour.
The website’s recurring availability issues are making us wonder if LinkedIn has perhaps started to run into scaling issues. According to their website, LinkedIn currently has more than 25 million users, compared to 14 million a year ago. That’s almost a doubling of their user base in just a year.
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This survey shows how much 16 of the largest and most popular social network sites have been unavailable during the first four months of 2008. How much has MySpace, Facebook, Friendster, Twitter, LiveJournal and many others been offline? Read on to find out. The monitoring for this survey was done using the Pingdom uptime monitoring [...]
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