Rackspace is down (again)
- by Scott Whigham on December 18, 2009 3:51 PMLearnItFirst.com hosts its IT training videos over at Rackspace and, due to unknown issues, the LearnItFirst site is unavailable due to Rackspace being down. 2009 hasn’t been the smoothest year for Rackspace – this makes the fourth big Rackspace outage of the year.
- June 29, 2009 – power failures at a data center caused an outage
- July 7, 2009 – more power failures at a data center caused an outage
- November 3, 2009 – Rackspace’s Cloud Sites and Slicehost went down due to power problems
- December 18, 2009 – Unknown as of this writing (it only happened three minutes ago!)
This isn’t an isolated LearnItFirst.com issue; it affects tons of people (TechCrunch is offline now too).
Looks like I was first in the twitterscape to break “the story” – lucky me! I beat @yrrenus by at least two full seconds :)
Within ten minutes, there were more than 100 tweets about Rackspace being down! I frigging love Twitter!
Boo Rackspace! Did their outages take a long time to fix in the past? Out site is down! :(
Rackspace is down again now (10 PM GMT, 12/18/2009).
I called the 24/7 hours, they said, yes, it's down (without me telling them my website )
seems a major down in a week
even their website is slow. but still says "100% uptime guarantee from the World hosting leader. 24/7 Support!"
Site is down http://MutualArrangments.com but should be up shortly due to Rackspace issues