News: Authroize.Net down (July 3, 2009)
Just a heads up for people. Authorize.Net has been down for a reported 6-8 hours now, some reports of a fire, and that they are getting offiste up and running to be back up by 1pm ET(?)
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/03/authorizenet-goes-under-e-commerce-...
-Greg
teammatt3 posted this at 16:51 — 3rd July 2009.
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It couldn't have happened at a worse time for me. I launched a new website for an existing company yesterday afternoon, and I was panicking this morning when I saw all of the orders within the last few hours had failed. I tried to login to Authorize.net to figure out why, and noticed the site was down.
I almost had a heart attack
. Glad it wasn't my fault!
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Greg K posted this at 17:40 — 3rd July 2009.
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They have created a twitter account... already nearly 2000 followers:
http://twitter.com/AuthorizeNet
They said for some reason it also took down their backup datacenter as well!
I do feel for them, what a bad way to start a holiday weekend.
-Greg
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