WPX Managed WordPress Hosting suffered an outage that may have taken down thousands of websites. The outage has lasted for hours. Many customers are complaining about a lack of communication from WPX. WPX Hosting Site Was Unreachable Even the WPX website hosting site itself was unreachable. Screenshot of WPX Hosting […]
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Today’s massive Internet outage comes courtesy of Akamai Edge DNS
Enlarge / “Dude, it can’t be DNS.” “How much you wanna bet?” A massive Internet outage today has downdetector.com covered in warnings for popular websites and services, such as the PlayStation Network, Steam, Fidelity Investments, Airbnb, FedEx, LastPass, UPS, Amazon, and others. The root cause of the outage appears to be […]
Southwest Airlines among websites impacted by global internet outage
A wave of brief internet outages hit the websites and apps of dozens of financial institutions, airlines and other companies across the globe Thursday. Internet monitoring websites including ThousandEyes, Downdetector.com and Fing.comshowed dozens of disruptions, including to U.S.-based airlines. Southwest Airlines reported a “brief outage” affecting its website and “internet-based […]
Internet outage takes down Amazon, Reddit, Guardian, New York Times, Twitch and more websites
Multiple outages hit websites across the globe on Tuesday morning, affecting news websites and social media platforms. According to Reuters, Amazon.com Inc’s retail website also seemed to face an outage. Amazon was not immediately available to comment. Reddit, Twitch, Spotify and Pinterest were also impacted. Leading websites operated by news […]
Southwest Airlines grounds all flights amid computer outage
Southwest Airlines grounded flights across the country Tuesday for the second time in less than 24 hours, amid reports of nationwide computer issues. Air travelers took to Twitter by the thousands with reports of what airline staff reportedly told them was a computer system outage — hours after “intermittent performance […]