What is all this about then?

d_brennen said:
"It follows Google's two-minute downtime on Friday."

OMG they sky is FALLING!
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I think it's the fact that the search engine actually managed to go down which is what they are reporting on.

IIRC Google has thousands of servers running the search engine so that if one of them is targeted (e.g. a DDOS attack), the other servers will pick up the slack and the user will not notice anything different. Then they are bound to have plenty of backup servers to fall back on in case anything goes wrong. So the fact that the whole search engine went down, albeit for only two minutes, is quite puzzling.
 
valkynaz said:
I think it's the fact that the search engine actually managed to go down which is what they are reporting on.

IIRC Google has thousands of servers running the search engine so that if one of them is targeted (e.g. a DDOS attack), the other servers will pick up the slack and the user will not notice anything different. Then they are bound to have plenty of backup servers to fall back on in case anything goes wrong. So the fact that the whole search engine went down, albeit for only two minutes, is quite puzzling.
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This, they must have more fail overs/HA than you can imagine!
 
You know journalism is dead when a website being off-line for a few moments makes the news......

in other news morrisons cowgate had a powercut lasting for 50 seconds and the phone box at the end of my road has a dodgy light bulb
 
Does the phone box at the end of your road have a profound effect on global web traffic?

Does the bulb going out mean you have to wait longer to see pictures of lovely ladies .... oh, actually, I suppose it could. :)
 
amazon going down has a profound effect on global web traffic? you know what profound means?

I didn't realise amazon was an internet pipeline deep under the sea and millions of websites were cutt off from the internet
 
arknor said:
amazon going down has a profound effect on global web traffic? you know what profound means?

I didn't realise amazon was an internet pipeline deep under the sea and millions of websites were cutt off from the internet
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lulz Arknor, do you think before you speak?

What he clearly meant was that for the time amazon was down there was a major drop in the amount of bandwidth usage on the web. The same happened for Google, as I believe there was a40% drop in internet traffic.
 
Something weird is definitely going on. Did anyone watch Horizon on BBC2 earlier? It was full of nothing but scaremongering, telling people how easy it is to be hacked, included references to all the usual sites like FB, Twitter, etc., etc.

Government's responce to all the PRISM malarkey trying to calm it down a little and/or scare people into accepting NSA/PRISM?
 
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Skynet!

Actually, all day today my net has been playing up, not loading websites, 404ing, taking ages to load and crashing a lot. Its probably nothing but its a very weird coincidence
 
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Its a direct result of too much immigration and the fact this causes house prices to drop or rise depending which scares Daily Mail readers the most at the time.

Also it was jointly caused by paedophiles.

And Muslims.

And the vengeful ghost of Princess Diana.
 
asim18 said:
Something weird is definitely going on. Did anyone watch Horizon on BBC2 earlier? It was full of nothing but scaremongering, telling people how easy it is to be hacked, included references to all the usual sites like FB, Twitter, etc., etc.

Government's responce to all the PRISM malarkey trying to calm it down a little and/or scare people into accepting NSA/PRISM?
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I watched it, it was very good but it wasn't anything new. Yes it's easy to be hacked but it doesn't give the government the right to follow everything we do online.
 
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