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Re: Fire, Power loss at Fisher Plaza in Seattle
From: Marshall Eubanks <tme () americafree tv>
Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2009 16:59:41 -0400
On Jul 3, 2009, at 4:29 PM, Ben Carleton wrote:
Yes it was. On Jul 3, 2009, at 4:29 PM, Jeffrey Lyon wrote:Wasn't Authorize.net affected by this? We received a support ticket about why Authorize.net is down today (I don't know either, I don't ask too many questions).
Authorize.net was for a while completely off the air, and companies that relied upon them were not getting credit card authorizations (and, thus, no ecommerce). I think it is still only
partially functional.Authorize.net has been communicating with customers mostly (entirely ?) with twitter - they are
@AuthorizeNet with a hash tab of #authorizenet If you go there, you will see a lot of status messages like#authorizenet (cont.) Do not manually submit ARB transactions b/c you run the risk of your merchants being double billed.
10 minutes ago from web (i.e., 4:47 EDT).You will also see a lot of posts from annoyed people if you search on #authorizenet
It's an interesting use of Web 2.0 for emergency communications. Regards Marshall
JeffOn Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 4:21 PM, Tomas L. Byrnes<tomb () byrneit net> wrote:Earth is a single point of failure, where is your backup site?[TLB:] Given that all my customers are on Earth, I don't need one if mycustomers also are "down".-- Jeffrey Lyon, Leadership Team jeffrey.lyon () blacklotus net | http://www.blacklotus.net Black Lotus Communications of The IRC Company, Inc.Look for us at HostingCon 2009 in Washington, DC on August 10th - 12that Booth #401.
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- Re: Fire, Power loss at Fisher Plaza in Seattle, (continued)
- Re: Fire, Power loss at Fisher Plaza in Seattle Seth Mattinen (Jul 03)
- RE: Fire, Power loss at Fisher Plaza in Seattle David Hubbard (Jul 03)
- RE: Fire, Power loss at Fisher Plaza in Seattle Tomas L. Byrnes (Jul 03)
- Re: Fire, Power loss at Fisher Plaza in Seattle Seth Mattinen (Jul 03)
- Re: Fire, Power loss at Fisher Plaza in Seattle William Herrin (Jul 03)
- Re: Fire, Power loss at Fisher Plaza in Seattle Sean Donelan (Jul 03)
- Re: Fire, Power loss at Fisher Plaza in Seattle Stephen Stuart (Jul 03)
- RE: Fire, Power loss at Fisher Plaza in Seattle Tomas L. Byrnes (Jul 03)
- Re: Fire, Power loss at Fisher Plaza in Seattle Jeffrey Lyon (Jul 03)
- Re: Fire, Power loss at Fisher Plaza in Seattle Ben Carleton (Jul 03)
- Re: Fire, Power loss at Fisher Plaza in Seattle Marshall Eubanks (Jul 03)
- Re: Fire, Power loss at Fisher Plaza in Seattle Jeffrey Lyon (Jul 03)
- Re: Fire, Power loss at Fisher Plaza in Seattle Marshall Eubanks (Jul 03)
- Using twitter as an outage notification (was: Fire, Power loss at Fisher Plaza in Seattle) Roland Perry (Jul 04)
- Re: Using twitter as an outage notification (was: Fire, Power loss at Fisher Plaza in Seattle) Marshall Eubanks (Jul 04)
- Re: Using twitter as an outage notification (was: Fire, Power loss at Fisher Plaza in Seattle) Roland Perry (Jul 04)
- Re: Using twitter as an outage notification (was: Fire, Power loss at Fisher Plaza in Seattle) Jeffrey Lyon (Jul 04)
- Re: Using twitter as an outage notification (was: Fire, Power loss at Fisher Plaza in Seattle) Michael Hallgren (Jul 04)
- Re: Using twitter as an outage notification (was: Fire, Power loss at Fisher Plaza in Seattle) Michael Hallgren (Jul 04)
- Re: Using twitter as an outage notification (was: Fire, Power loss at Fisher Plaza in Seattle) Roland Perry (Jul 04)
- Re: Using twitter as an outage notification Chris Hills (Jul 04)
- RE: Fire, Power loss at Fisher Plaza in Seattle Tomas L. Byrnes (Jul 03)