Netflix Outage
Netflix was offline for nearly 24 hours — almost weeks in Internet time for a business whose entire existence is online. It was astonishing, at least to me, that a major Internet service could be disrupted for so long.
According to my people on the ground in San Francisco, a transformer explosion was the cause.
It’s a good reminder that the Net is more fragile than we might think.
UPDATE: the original source in California recants. The Netflix outage remains a mystery. Explanations are welcome.