World:
Posted on 12/07/2022 6:18:41 AM PST by frogjerk
According to Down Detector, the issues started at around 12:20 GMT Customers were able to browse the website, but couldn't complete checkout A holding page read: 'Sorry, we're experiencing unusually heavy traffic. Please try again in a few seconds'
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
About an hour ago, I had to order a computer part - got to checkout ‘place order’ & it didn’t go through. Second try .... told me to wait, high volume, and had a timer going, then said ‘try again’. It worked that time.
Aren’t amazon employees striking right now?......sounds like a union disruption tactic to me.
“...following a one-hour outage that left thousands of Britons unable to checkout”
Putin, again?
What would the world do if the the entire Internet was suddenly taken away?......................
World:
Perhaps, but it’s unlikely the engineers that wrote the code and keep it running are unionized and are probably compensated very well.
I spent my career in the IT world, having experienced a number of system emergencies, I would not want to be part of something like Amazon going offline for any length of time, there is likely a lot of finger pointing and accusations being made, or it could be some person not paying attention did something stupid and took down part of Amazon.
Sorry, we’re experiencing unusually heavy traffic. Please try again in a few seconds.
This has been going on for 15 minutes now.
Thank God we’ve destroyed Mom and Pop stores and are moving away from cash…
What would be the reason to go on living? The euthanasia camps would be overflowing. Bodies stacking up. Lines forming. A hopeless situation.
Briton’s checked out a long time ago.
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