This is what Twitter’s homepage looks like today:
Their maintenance notice is broken too:
Twitter is currently down for <%= reason %>.
We expect to be back in <%= deadline %>. For more information, check out Twitter Status. Thanks for your patience!
Google has been experiencing outages as well, with their Google Talk service:
This once again reminds us that running a complex distributed system is hard, and 100% guaranteed uptime, all the time, is not commercially or technologically feasible – just ask Amazon (and Netflix, Instagram, and Pinterest) about recent power outages.
SLAs are useless. If you use cloud hosting providers, you should focus on designing your apps for failure.
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The Go Daddy-serviced sites going down today, http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-57509753-83/go-daddy-serviced-web-sites-go-down-hacker-takes-credit/, was a lovely experience as well. Companies wasting time trying to debug why their email wasn’t working only to discover that it was yet another Go Daddy problem.