Internet Outages
The Internet has been acting very strange for me today, starting with a brief, but weird Gmail glitch.. later on, WordPress (which hosts this blog) went into “read only mode” and I could not post anything online all afternoon. Then Netflix went totally offline. I suspect there’s some “hacker” shenanigans afoot (aka Denial of Service attacks [DoS]) causing these outages.
Netflix suffers hour-long outage, fans complain via Twitter
CNET (blog) – Greg Sandoval – 1 hour ago
Netflix managers were investigating the cause of an hour-long outage that has left millions of subscribers without access to their queue or the ability to stream movies. Visitors to Netflix this evening were greeted by a note that notified …
Regardless of what the article states, my Netflix is still “unavailable”. A friend on the Right Coast says his services are normal and the Internet is okay.. so maybe it’s a Lefty Coast thing..
Related: A DDoS attack took WordPress offline just a week or so ago..
WordPress Outage Today: Taken Down By DDoS Attack
Product Reviews – Peter Chubb – Mar 3, 2011
“A huge percentage of blogs were shocked to learn that there was a WordPress outage today, as it was taken down by a DDoS attack. Although WordPress managed to get things under control, there are fears that it could happen again..”
Ah. The joys of cloud computing..
[update: as of 7:45pm Pacific, both Netflix and WordPress have returned to service.]