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outages   07.18.2007, 12:03 PM

posted by ben vershbow

Apologies to everyone who has had difficulty viewing our sites today. We've determined that the problem lies not with our server but with Time Warner. Apparently, sites are viewable through different ISPs but Time Warner/Roadrunner appears to be undergoing some sort of maintenance that prevents them from resolving our URLs. We thought this might just be a New York problem but recently got a message from someone in North Carolina that they're experiencing the same thing. If you're reading this now it probably means you are unaffected.

A paranoid thought did occur to me: is this momentary glitch a preview of a post net neutrality world in which less privileged, non-premium sites like ours get the shaft?

Hopefully this will all pass soon.

Update: it seems to have passed.

Posted by ben vershbow on July 18, 2007 12:03 PM
tags: ISP, internet, netneutrality, technical

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