Widespread Outages for World of Warcraft

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

Via Netcraft.

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World of Warcraft is experiencing lengthy downtime, and blaming its service provider for the outages. The virtual 
world, which now has more than 6 million users, also announced emergency maintenance outages overnight on a large 
number of game servers (known as "realms").

"We'd like to make all players aware that at this time our internet service provider is experiencing significant 
complications, and as a result the playability on a large portion of realms has been adversely affected," said a 
message from Epifanio, Senior Game Master, on the WoW forums.. "Symptoms include but are not limited to lag, random 
disconnections and slow authentication. Our network technicians are doing everything in their power to work with our 
ISP so that this issue may be resolved as swiftly as possible."

World of Warcraft is hosted by AT&T, which houses servers for the game at data centers in Los Angeles and Redwood City, 
Calif., and Ashburn, Va. The outages affected the worldofwarcraft.com web site as well as the game servers.

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More:
http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2006/03/25/widespread_outages_for_world_of_warcraft.html

- ferg


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 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
 fergdawg () netzero net or fergdawg () sbcglobal net
 ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/


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