Even Amazon.com goes down sometimes…
I ran into two new Amazon.com errors this morning:
Amazon.com Timeout
Something about your request to Amazon.com caused our server to take a long time … longer than we would like. So, we automatically stopped the program. Please try again.
It seems something’s wrong at my old place of work; obviously I can’t tell what it is from here, but I’m certainly annoyed that I can’t pricematch HL2 at the moment. I guess Amazon has more downtime than a regular consumer probably will ever notice. The second error I get is when I try to access an Obidos detail page:
We’re sorry!
An error occurred when we tried to process your request. Rest assured, we’re already working on the problem and expect to resolve it shortly.
If you were trying to make a purchase, please check Your Account to confirm that the order was placed.
We apologize for the inconvenience.
on the Amazon.com home page
When I go to a Gurupa page, it loads quite snappily, leading me to believe that they’re doing something with Obidos. I don’t honestly know much about either technology–google for more. Hope it gets fixed soon.
Update: Major news media have picked up on this. If only they read my blog.
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Amazon, Toys R Us, Kids R Us and several other household brand names are running on the same infrastructure. I noticed similar problems on Amazon and Toys R Us during the ‘05 holiday season. I also noticed that Toysrus.com lives on the Amazon domain which would explain the shared network problems. You would think these well know fortune 500 companies would implement a professional and reliable infrastructure, on isolated domains and servers.