Re: Fire, Power loss at Fisher Plaza in Seattle

[Marshall Eubanks <tme () americafree tv>]

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


> > Jeff
> >
> > On 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 my
> > > customers also are "down".
> >
> >
> >
> > --
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> >
> > Look for us at HostingCon 2009 in Washington, DC on August 10th -  
> > 12th
> > at Booth #401.