Some Downtime notices ( Blogger and Cisco)
Blogger.com Hit By Downtime:
Blogger.com was offline for an hour early Wednesday as Google’s popular service encountered performance problems. Blogger is one of the oldest and largest blogging services, hosting several million free blogs. Google “apologized profusely” for the service interruption.
“Blogger and Blog*Spot had an unexpected outage for an hour this morning, starting around 7AM PDT,” Google reported on its Blogger status page. “As of 8AM, all but a few blogs are working properly again.” The company didn’t offer any additional details on the cause of the outage. The Google search engine and other services were unaffected, as the outage appears to have been isolated to Blogger and blogspot.com.
Human Error Knocks Cisco Web Site Offline:
Human error was responsible for a data center electrical overload that knocked the Cisco Systems web site offline for about three hours Wednesday afternoon, the company said last night. The outage came as Cisco released four security advisories about vulnerabilities in its networking products, and left system administrators unable to access Cisco’s support resources. The company was able to alert users through blogs.cisco.com, which is hosted on an another network.
“The issue occurred during preventative maintenance of one of our data centers when a human error caused an electrical overload on the systems,” Cisco said in an update. “This caused Cisco.com and other applications to go down. Because of the severity of the overload, the redundancy measures in some of the applications and power systems were impacted as well, though the system did shut down as designed to protect the people and the equipment.”
source : http://news.netcraft.com/
