Anyone trying to access the popular QRZ.com website on the
morning of October 22 most likely received a "server not found"
message from their web browser. QRZ.com publisher Fred Lloyd, AA7BQ, reports
that the outage was the result of "some kind of big network failure"
suffered by Amazon.com, which provides QRZ's "cloud" services. Lloyd
said the outage lasted about two-and-a-half hours and knocked hundreds of
websites offline. Apparently, the outage began with yet-unspecified problems in
northern Virginia and then spread from there. Normal service was restored later
in the day.
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Wednesday, October 24, 2012
QRZ.com Suffers Brief Shutdown Due to "Cloud" Outage
Anyone trying to access the popular QRZ.com website on the
morning of October 22 most likely received a "server not found"
message from their web browser. QRZ.com publisher Fred Lloyd, AA7BQ, reports
that the outage was the result of "some kind of big network failure"
suffered by Amazon.com, which provides QRZ's "cloud" services. Lloyd
said the outage lasted about two-and-a-half hours and knocked hundreds of
websites offline. Apparently, the outage began with yet-unspecified problems in
northern Virginia and then spread from there. Normal service was restored later
in the day.