It’s Amazing How Fragile the Internet Really Is
This morning, many of the Internet’s most popular sites- Technorati, Archive.org, Netflix, Craiglist, LiveJournal, and others, went down. This was caused by a power outage at a single data center(or, some rumormongers say, a drunk employee accidentally hitting the off switch.) Coupled with the still-popular Onion video about the crash of the Internet, this serves as a stark reminder of just how fragile the Internet really is. Read more »

