Server and Website Monitoring Blog

easyspeedy.com outage

2010-04-20T07:07:00.001-07:00

As of 13.27 UTC today easyspeedy.com appear to be totally offline. Outage has currently lasted 40 minutes.

Back as of 14.20 UTC. Outage of 43 minutes.

Telecomplete down time - 24th January 2009

2009-01-25T08:03:00.000-08:00

Telecompletes network appeared unavailable as was their web site between 22.47 and 02.07 UTC on the 24th January.

Manap Issues - 23rd January 2009

2009-01-23T05:43:00.000-08:00

Manchester Internet Exchange (www.manap.net) appears to be having issues today.

At about 12.43 UTC we noticed some slow down in the internet and instability in connections.

After a short investigation it became apparent there was a problem with routes through manap. Packet loss was being reported at 65%+ and the manap web site was unavailable.

Issue was resolved at 14.18 UTC. No news yet as to the reason for the outage.

Kingston Internet - 9th August 2008

2008-08-11T06:54:00.000-07:00

Karoo and Kingston Internet (part of the KCOM group) experienced a total loss of service from 3pm until around 10pm on Saturday the 9th of August effectively knocking Hull and the surrounding area that Kingston Communications (part of the KCOM group) serve off the internet.

They have not yet released details of what happened but it appears they had to call in Nortel and Cisco to resolve this issue.

Claranet Outage - 4th August 2008

2008-08-08T02:27:00.000-07:00

It appears Claranet had an outage on the 4th August which was blamed on data centre Global Switch.

It appears the problem was caused by a power failure at Global Switch 2 in London which caused two routers to fail as a result of the power failure.

02:54 AM Power issue
03.30 AM Power restored to GS2
03.50 AM Power restored to all Claranet customers in GS2

Cable & Wireless Outage

2008-07-10T07:47:00.001-07:00

Cable and Wireless's data centre in Watford has been targeted by thieves who appear to have stolen a large quantity of cisco networking equipment. A number of major sites such as Sainsbury's appear to have been affected.

Goodle Docs Unavailable

2008-07-09T04:37:00.000-07:00

Google Docs and Apps was unavailable for some time on Tuesday 8th July.

Customers just received a server error page telling them to retry in 30 seconds.

Snapnames unavailable

2008-07-08T02:44:00.000-07:00

Snapnames website was unavailable between Thursday 3rd July and Tuesday 8th July. No specific reason given for the outage.

Statement from Snapnames :-

"As you are likely aware, the SnapNames service was unavailable between last Thursday evening U.S. Pacific time and today. We are pleased to tell you functionality has now been restored and that important data, including transaction history, has been fully retained."