Latest downtime publications

“Aware of major Cloudflare issues impacting us network wide” Fresh from dusting itself off from a route-leak issue that impacted parts of its network last week, network services provider Cloudflare is experiencing connection issues across its network, affecting millions of websites that rely on its services. The issue appears to have begun around 2:15pm BST,… Read More

Route leak that impacted Cloudflare network resolved Cloudflare, a company that provides performance and security services to websites, has resolved an issue that affected a number of its customers Monday. Among the sites affected by the network issue were Overcast, Discord, WP Engine, WP Engine and Sonassi, and many of the other 16 million sites... Read More

Green gains suffer unwelcome slump and staffing shortage reaches critical level Data centre research specialist Uptime Institute has released its ninth annual data centre survey, revealing the latest practices and trends driving mission-critical infrastructure. In last year’s survey Uptime found that data centre operators were making progress in their efforts to cut energy waste, finding… Read More

UPDATE: ConnectWise has said its EU services are gradually coming back online: “Temporary access has been restored to partners, and additional services are being restored by the support teams. We will continue to update,” the firm said. Software management and automation service ConnectWise has suffered an outage affecting European customers. The issue came to light after… Read More

British Airways is taking property specialist CBRE to court over last year’s data centre failure which cost the airline almost £60 million  The outage plunged Gatwick and Heathrow’s busy bank holiday schedule into chaos when 672 flights had to be cancelled leaving thousands of passengers stranded. According to the Mail on Sunday, BA is suing CBRE in London’s High… Read More