Many popular websites are unavailable at the moment. CNet was temporarily unavailable. Craigslist, LiveJournal and Typepad are all currently unavailable. Ebay is reportedly slow. We’re hearing that a large internet service provider in San Francisco has lost power, and taken down the websites with it.
Netflix is also down due to an unrelated problem. Apparently its stock price sunk so low it pulled its internet connection down with it.
What else has gone down? If you encounter a website that seems to have been affected, please leave the information in the comments section below.
Update: O'Reilly Radar confirms.
Update II: NBC is reporting power outages in San Francisco. "Some 51,000 customers throughout San Francisco are without power Tuesday afternoon, according to a Pacific Gas and Electric Co. spokeswoman."
Update III: Feeling bad about the internet troubles from San Francisco? Well, at least it's not as bad as the video after the jump.
Update IV: We're told that the internet problems began when "a car crashed into a pole that carries the power line to [the internet hub known as] 365 main, which houses craigslist, typepad, red envelope..." Developing.
Posted by BSD , Jul 24, 2007 6:44PM
I was right in the middle of this shit on the 35th floor in downtown SF. Our whole building powered out - elevators and all. Then power came back for about 20 minutes and then it was out again. This was the closest I’ve come to actually throwing my monitor out the window, since power went out right as I was about to finish running my model that takes over an hour to compile. Good thing I have 3 hooked up, so 1 is expendable.
Posted by roger , Jul 24, 2007 7:24PM
what do you do with your model after you run it?
Posted by , Jul 24, 2007 7:45PM
BSD goes to a blog to tell people about it.
Posted by Deal Breaker Reader , Jul 24, 2007 8:21PM
Maybe it's my browser, but Deal Breaker seems to be stuck on Blackstone.
Posted by David , Jul 24, 2007 9:17PM
Noticed earlier that a few of the blogs in my blogroll were not coming up. Then I realized that all three were Typepad blogs, so I wondered if there was a problem this afternoon.
Didn't know about the outage till I read this, but I can read all the Typepad blogs now, so I guess it's clear on their end.
Posted by vicks , Jul 24, 2007 9:44PM
a car crashed into a pole? it was probably lindsay lohan.
Posted by , Jul 25, 2007 8:33AM
8:21,
Keep hitting refresh!
Posted by , Jul 25, 2007 10:41AM
8:33, you're joking right? Dumbass.