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Skype Outage Hassles Millions of Users
Multiple sources are reporting that Microsoft's popular messaging and voice chat application Skype has been hit by a severe service outage.
The problem seems to be a bug in the application which affects users from seeing each other. Microsoft has stated that they have found the cause of the problem and is slowly working to restore service, however at the time of this writing it seems that a number of global users are still affected.
Link to official Skype status: Skype Heartbeat.
I've been planning to move away from Skype for a while, but its popularity is making it somewhat difficult (akin to the Facebook dilemma: everyone uses it, why switch?) and this outage has underscored the need for redundancy, especially for some things that users view as essential for connectivity. What other similar applications can Soylent recommend?
AWS knocks Amazon, Netflix, Tinder and IMDb offline in MEGA data collapse
Amazon's Web Services (AWS) have been hit by a monster outage affecting the company's cloudy systems, bringing many sites down with it in the process.
The service disruption has hit AWS customers including Netflix, Tinder and IMDb, as well as Amazon's Instant Video and Books websites.
The outage may also explain Airbnb's current service woes. Airbnb is an AWS customer.
(Score: 2) by kurenai.tsubasa on Wednesday September 23 2015, @12:01AM
Provided a Dell hardware RAID hasn't just had a brain fart after a UPS failure, went to “repair” the RAID with the wrong parameters, and promptly fucked your VM up. True story.
That being said, I'm happy to report complete satisfaction with Linode, even though I only use my server in the clouds for hobby projects, so I don't have experience with a site even at Soylent's level. They even allow you to provision at multiple different physical data centers to control for the above scenario, and they're very prompt about reporting outages. In, what has it been, 7 years or so, Linode has never lost a copy of my VM.