Netflix DOWN: Website Experiencing Outage, 'Service Unavailable'

Netflix DOWN: Website Experiencing Outage, 'Service Unavailable'

Are you finding Netflix down? It's not just you. Many users are reporting Netflix down on social networking sites this evening, Friday, Feb. 19, 2010.

Those who try to access Netflix simply see the message: "Http/1.1 Service Unavailable." The reason for the outage is not known at this time.

Tech guru and blogger Robert Scoble tweeted about the Netflix outage, "People are saying Netflix is down. I didn't break it, promise! :-)"

Here are a few of the many tweets about Netflix being down:

aarontitus: Waddya know... Netflix is down. Weird.

danaharris: Netflix is down - Http/1.1 Service Unavailable , on a Friday night?

danieljohnsonjr: Netflix is down on a Friday night in the Western hemisphere. Bad timing for sure.

The last major Netflix outage was in March 2008, when it suffered a five-hour outage.

UPDATE (8:45 p.m. ET): Netflix has posted the following message on its website, which shows at times and others does not:

We're sorry, the Netflix website is temporarily unavailable.

Our shipping centers are continuing to send and receive DVDs , so your movies will be processed as usual. And you can still instantly watch movies via your Netflix ready device.

Our engineers are working hard to bring the site back up as soon as possible. We appreciate your patience and, again, we apologize for the inconvenience. If you need further assistance, please call us at 1-866-636-3079.

UPDATE (10:25 p.m. ET): Netflix appears to be back up and running after about two hours offline.

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