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Jun 27

DNS Made Easy… or hard if the site is down

I’ve recently been working with DNS Made Easy on a project I’m working on that uses EC2 and therefore needs Dynamic DNS, and on the whole I’m rather happy with DNS Made Easy’s interface, it is, for the most part easy, and it gets the job done. However today I find myself needing to create some additional hosts to work on some new EC2 boxes, and, what do I get when I try to go to dnsmadeeasy.com to log in? See the left, another one bites the dust! DNS Made Easy has been down for hours with this incredibly unhelpful error message, and I find myself unable to configure dns for my domain because of it. Hours of productivity lost!

On the flip side, I seem to be developing a habit of Posting when large sites go down, I’ll admit, DNS Made Easy is a ton more obscure then either Facebook or Amazon was, but it’s major enough to cost me productivity, so it’s major enough for me to publicly humiliate by pointing out their multi-hour outage.

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Jun 19

Facebook - whoops there goes another major site!

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Two weeks ago I posted about Amazon.com being down for hours, tonight, another major website has gone down without warning, and has a very ugly error message, just like Amazon did. At this time the error message (shown on the right) has been up for at least 20 minutes with no sign of repair, in fact, much the contrary, while the error message is still there, it is taking longer and longer for the error message to load, meaning that even facebook’s error page is under serious strain.

UPDATE: Update, the error message is still there, but at least facebook seems to have fixed their CSS, so as you can see to the left, the error message is much less “ugly” now.

Interesting a large outage like this happens on the evening of the day that it is announced that Facebook is losing long time Executive Matt Cohler to Benchmark Capital.

Update 2: It appears that facebook is now operational once again.

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Jun 06

Amazon Still down, money down too

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I previously reported that Amazon.com was down with a non-descriptive error message. After almost 2 of downtime it seems they’ve decided to have a friendlier error message, so it seems at least they are acknowledging that something is wrong now, but it is still down. According to CNet, this outage could be costing Amazon as much as $31,000 every minute! This accounts to about $3,348,000 so far, and there’s no sign of the outage ending…

This is already hitting Amazon where it really hurts, AMZN is down over 4% today