I was unable to blog today due to Earthlink going down across the nation this morning. Earthlink hosts my web space and has been a very reliable company the past four years, so I’ll take this network wide crash as an unfortunate mishap. All phone systems and email systems went down at Earthlink headquarters in Atlanta sometime this morning, with no way to contact the ISP I tried my luck with Twitter, and the answer was located as three million users were affected.
Here's what I found on Twitter this morning:
- industrynews: ISP EarthLink Goes Offline on Earth Day http://tinyurl.com/dcoadr
- SurfBeagle: Earthlink spent most of the day down. No email, no web-hosting, nothing. If it can happen to them. It can happen to you. Surf Technologies
- loisgeller: It was so interesting that theonly place to find out that Earthlink was down today was here on Twitter.
- lkaminoff: #earthlink site came back up & no mention of outage + no Twitter presence = not learning lessons from #amazonfail Get it together folks
- rajmitra: Per their customer service person that I finally got through to after all day Earthlink's Atlanta data center went down.
- zudfunck: EarthLink suffers Earth Day Crash http://ow.ly/3D5Y serves an estimated 2.8 million subscribers in the United States.
- Suntimes Earthlink dies on Earth Day? http://tr.im/jrlX Come on, this can't be a coincidence, right?
- jamner Yea mindspring & earthlink all connected related & owned by the same and now seemingly all out @LeoLaporte live.twit down?
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