{"id":561,"date":"2007-07-24T20:09:24","date_gmt":"2007-07-25T01:09:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/2007\/07\/24\/netflix-outage\/"},"modified":"2007-07-24T20:48:36","modified_gmt":"2007-07-25T01:48:36","slug":"netflix-outage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/2007\/07\/24\/netflix-outage","title":{"rendered":"Netflix Outage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hackingnetflix.com\/2007\/07\/netflix-websi-1.html\">Netflix was offline for nearly 24 hours<\/a> &#8212; 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.<\/p>\n<p>According to my people on the ground in San Francisco, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tikirobot.net\/wp\/2007\/07\/24\/backup-genny-we-dont-need-no-backup-genny\/\">a transformer explosion was the cause<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a good reminder that the Net is more fragile than we might think.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: the original source in California <a href=\"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/2007\/07\/24\/netflix-outage\/#comments\">recants<\/a>. The Netflix outage remains a mystery. Explanations are welcome.<\/p>\n<p><hints id=\"hah_hints\"><\/hints><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Netflix was offline for nearly 24 hours &#8212; 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. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}