inquisitr.com - 7/3/2009
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Score one for bricks and mortar shopping.
Seattle based authorize.net was offline for hours this morning following a fire at a data center at Seattle’s Fisher’s Plaza. Reportedly many companies were affected, but authorize.net is the only one responsible for millions of online ...
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Fire in downtown Seattle data center knocks out businesses, online services
betanews.com 7/3/2009 — By Angela Gunn , Betanews
A fire that started at around 11:15 PDT Thursday night has taken a wide assortment of Seattle businesses, media outlets, and government services offline. It's believed that a fire in a data center at Fisher Plaza set off the automatic sprinklers, which in turn soaked ...
Fire takes down Authorize.net, halting e-commerce for many —
VentureBeat
A fire in Seattle’s Fisher Plaza appears to have taken down Authorize.net , a service used by online businesses to process credit card and electronic check payments.
That’s a big problem for any Authorize.net customer, since this basically means they can’t accept payments ...
Geocaching Down, Too —
Mashable!
Today a fire hit a major datacenter in Seattle, taking money processor Authorize.Net down . This has caused many web-based financial transactions to grind to a halt, but Authorize.Net isn’t the only website that’s gone offline today.
Another popular website has fallen, ...
Seattle Data Center Outage Disrupts E-Commerce —
Slashdot
1sockchuck writes "A major power outage at Seattle telecom hub Fisher Plaza has knocked payment processing provider Authorize.net offline for hours, leaving thousands of web site unable to take credit cards for online sales. The Authorize site is still down, but its Twitter account attributes ...
Authorize.Net Goes Down —
Mashable!
As a lot of e-commerce businesses and Twitter users are noticing, the entire Authorize.Net infrastructure crashed a few hours ago. For anyone who makes a purchase online, this is huge; Authorize.Net is the largest service for accepting credit cards and e-checks through the web. This means that ...
Bing Travel back to life —
D' Technology Weblog
Bing Travel is back online at 11 a.m. Saturday, after 36–hrs of downtime following the fire and power outage at Seattle's Fisher Plaza East data center facilities. " Bing Travel is a complex system of servers, databases and networking hardware that runs at massive scale," ...
Blown transformer knocked out Bing Travel —
D' Technology Weblog
If you visit Bing Travel today, you’ll be greeted with this message: “A fire occurred at Fisher Plaza in downtown Seattle just after midnight on Friday morning, July 3. A blown transformer knocked out power to the entire building, which is home to the Bing Travel among ...
Bejeweled Blitz Blitzed by Seattle Data Center Fire —
Technologizer
Facebook users looking to kill a little time before the Fourth of July fireworks with a quick game of the popular Bejeweled Blitz game were greeted with an error message saying the site was down due to a fire at the data center that hosts the game’s servers.
“There was a major fire at ...
Authorize.net Goes Down, E-Commerce Vendors Left Hanging —
TechCrunch
Talk about a serious outage. Payment gateway service provider Authorize.net has been down and out for several hours, a number of tipsters inform us . That has big implications: since the service is used by tens of thousands of e-commerce vendors to accept credit card and electronic checks ...
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