Authorize.Net Down Due to Data Center Fire   - 934 Views,

Previous Article « California Governor Schwarzenegger Vetoes California Affiliate Program Tax, Overstock Reinstates California Affiliates
Read Next Article » Is Amazon Down? (Yes, at Least for Some People, for Some Period of Time.)

  Follow Anne on Twitter

Thousands of AuthorizeNet customers have started their long 4th of July weekend learning that Authorize.net has gone down - and gone down hard - due to a fire at one of their main data centers in Seattle, Washington. Authorize.net is one of the largest providers of merchant services on the Internet, allowing their customers to accept and process credit card payments with MasterCard and Visa. This means that when Authorize.net goes down - everybody’s ability to do business goes down with them.

It turns out that a fire in Seattle’s Fisher Plaza has taken down the merchant provider giant’s Seattle Data Center. However, for hours there was not only a data blackout, but what seemed a news blackout, with nobody really knowing what had happened. In fact, there is still blessed little coverage about the fire itself, and it is only because someone from Authorize.Net created an account in Twitter just moments ago that the speculation as to what has happened is ended.

“We are down due to a fire at our primary data center in Seattle. We are working to restore services, but no ETA at this time.” said the Authorize.net representative, who is getting communications out to the outside world via the Twitter account @authorizenet.

The blaze apparently also took out at least one network news affiliate. And, it is reported, what the fire didn’t destroy, the resulting deluge of water from the sprinklers did.

No word on when Authorize.net will be back up, but they are “working on it.”

Authorize.Net Down Due to Data Center Fire

 Follow Anne on Twitter

 Twitter Explained in Plain English

 Friend Anne on Facebook

Previous Article « California Governor Schwarzenegger Vetoes California Affiliate Program Tax, Overstock Reinstates California Affiliates
Read Next Article » Is Amazon Down? (Yes, at Least for Some People, for Some Period of Time.)

Read more:

»  “We Didn’t Start the Fire” claims Nokia as Cell Phone Blamed for Starting Fire and Critically Burning Man

»  FlexiSpy Cell Phone Tapping Software

»  Is the T-Mobile Sidekick About to Become the MCI Sidekick?

»  How to Turn Your Cell Phone Into a Wifi Hotspot: WMWifiRouter

For additional similar stories check out our archives on Everything Else

NOTE: We never, ever, ever will recommend any product or service on this site that we have not regularly used ourselves and do not wholeheartedly believe in. That said, in some cases after being very pleased with a product or service, we may enter into a relationship with the provider of that product or service such that if someone purchases that product or service based on our recommendation, we may get a small payment. Such payments go towards the upkeep of the Internet Patrol.