Single Fire stops much Internet Commerce
Well, looks like absolutely nobody is capable of learning about redundancy. Last night a single fire in a data center in Seattle has completely taken down authorize.net. Authorize.net is arguably the biggest player in Internet credit card processing, so it appears that a very large percentage of the ecommerce sites on the Internet have been out since some time last night. Rumor has it that either most of the credit-card processing has come up, or will soon, as they attempt to get power restored to the building (the rumor is that sprinkler systems took out all the emergency
