Friday, July 3rd, 2009
Facebook users looking to kill a little time before the Fourth of July fireworks with a quick game of the popular Bejeweled Blitz game were greeted with an error message saying the site was down due to a fire at the data center that hosts the game’s servers. “There was a major fire at Bejeweled Blitz’s server hosting facility last night. We would like to say that the heat of everybody’s gem swapping burned up the servers, but unfortunately in this case it was an actual fire,” the message from
Tags: Bejeweled Game, Blitz Game, Blitzed, Center Fire, Error Message, Fourth Of July, Fourth Of July Fireworks, Little Time, Seattle Center, Server Hosting, Servers
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Friday, July 3rd, 2009
Illustrating the continued fragility of the modern Internet, threads in both the Zen Cart and Web Hosting Talk forums indicate that one of the country's largest credit card authorization networks has gone completely offline. According to several posters, a "perfect storm" was created by the combination of a data center fire and the July 4 weekend holiday, resulting the company going completely dark for more than five hours and counting. The company's phone lines and this Authorize.net websi
Tags: Authorize Net, Center Fire, Credit Card Authorization, Credit Card Processing, Credit Processing, Fragility, Holiday Card, Holiday Weekend, July 4, Perfect Storm, Posters, Processing Company, Threads, Websi, Weekend Holiday, Zen Cart
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