Rackspace Down, Takes Major Sites With It

techcrunch.com:

Another day, another Rackspace outage. The hosting company had a complete and total failure today that took down a number of big sites on the Internet, including ours. This has been happening all too often in recent months, including downtime just last month.

Read the whole story: techcrunch.com

Comments

[wagadog]

11:15 PM on 12/20/2009

This is so last Friday.

[hypnotoad72]

09:36 PM on 12/19/2009

Aren't cloud computing and SaaS wonderful innovation­s?

(Um, NO...)

[Tunghoy]

07:47 PM on 12/19/2009

I put almost all my clients' sites on hostgator.­com. Almost never have any problems with them. (And no, I have no financial interest in them at all.)

[tlgeiger62]

06:23 PM on 12/18/2009

My site's still up! Phew!