You may or may not know that nearly all Google services went down last Friday afternoon for a moment. This Monday it was Amazon, in an incredibly rare hiccup, its homepage went down for nearly an hour.
Amazon says its homepage was down for 49 minutes, which puts the total sales missed at nearly $5.7 million.
Microsoft confirmed it has finally resolved an issue with SkyDrive and Outlook.com that has been affecting some users from seven-hour to three days outage, last week.
The New York Times also went down for two hours last week,
But one question I find really interesting is, should we actually expect Amazon, Microsoft or Google’s systems to run perfectly all the time?
Or should we rename the services to:
- SkyDive.com
- Outage.com
- Goone.com
Or will the world go bizarre in general, for the next days!
The sun is about to undergo a complete reversal of its magnetic field. The sun's north magnetic pole will become its south pole, and vice versa, in an event that will reverberate throughout the entire solar system.
The sun is currently going through what is known as solar maximum, when extra magnetic activity translates into greater chances to bombard the Earth with radiation and solar material. These events can trigger auroras and disrupt satellite operations and even damage power grids on the ground...