Ebay Down This Morning!

[Geo]

Has anyone else got this problem?

[bobm12]

I don't know about 5 - 6 hrs ago (UK morning?), but here now (US morning) it is up...

Edited August 12, 2014 by bobm12

[Geo]

That's it back on, it was off for about four hours.

[RosscoInOshawa]

Geo, I'm not sure if you were already aware but there was an article in yesterdays news about it...

 

 

The memory max-out caused problems for eBay users in Britain who were prevented from logging on to the auction site. Elsewhere, browsing speeds were slow and websites had sporadic outages.

 

"We knew this was coming, we didn’t prepare, we got caught … Like so many things in today’s online era, we simply didn’t take it seriously until it was too late.”

 

Mr. Levy said the slowdown and outages are largely the fault of Internet service providers and companies that have made large investments in data centres and who are responsible for keeping the Internet running.

 

The issue is traffic exceeded the capacity of old router memory.

 

“For the longest time, the standard size of a routing table was what was known as 512,000 [routes] … which was pretty good up until recently because the Internet was smaller than 512,000 routes,” Mr. Levy, explained.

 

“The problem is, is this week, thanks to the very rapid growth of the Internet, the actual map of the overall Internet exceeded 512,000.”

 

The memory maximum of 512,000 used to be an acceptable size, considering there were only 256,000 routes in 2008. But now, technology from the 1990s and 2000s is outdated.

[Geo]

Thanks for the info Rossco. At least it wasn't my fault! :-)

[RosscoInOshawa]

My pleasure Geo.  I immediately thought of you when I read it this morning and hoped you hadn't started any serious troubleshooting thinking it was your fault! :)

Edited August 15, 2014 by RosscoInOshawa

[bobm12]

Guys, we still need to fix it! Don't let go now!,,,,pleaseeeee! :fpc:

[Blacklab]

Sheeeet, this could be the end of civilisation as we know it...................