Fire, Power loss at Fisher Plaza in Seattle

Fri Jul 3 20:59:41 UTC 2009

On Jul 3, 2009, at 4:29 PM, Ben Carleton wrote:

> Yes it was.
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> On Jul 3, 2009, at 4:29 PM, Jeffrey Lyon wrote:
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>> Wasn't Authorize.net affected by this? We received a support ticket
>> about why Authorize.net is down today (I don't know either, I don't
>> ask too many questions).
>>

Authorize.net was for a while completely off the air, and companies  
that relied upon them
were not getting credit card authorizations (and, thus, no ecommerce).  
I think it is still only
partially functional.

Authorize.net has been communicating with customers mostly  
(entirely ?) with twitter - they are

@AuthorizeNet with a hash tab of #authorizenet

If you go there, you will see a lot of status messages like

#authorizenet (cont.) Do not manually submit ARB transactions b/c you  
run the risk of your merchants being double billed.
10 minutes ago from web

(i.e., 4:47 EDT).

You will also see a lot of posts from annoyed people if you search on   
#authorizenet

It's an interesting use of Web 2.0 for emergency communications.

Regards
Marshall

>> Jeff
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>> On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 4:21 PM, Tomas L. Byrnes<tomb at byrneit.net>  
>> wrote:
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>>>> Earth is a single point of failure, where is your backup site?
>>>
>>> [TLB:] Given that all my customers are on Earth, I don't need one  
>>> if my
>>> customers also are "down".
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>> -- 
>> Jeffrey Lyon, Leadership Team
>> jeffrey.lyon at blacklotus.net | http://www.blacklotus.net
>> Black Lotus Communications of The IRC Company, Inc.
>>
>> Look for us at HostingCon 2009 in Washington, DC on August 10th -  
>> 12th
>> at Booth #401.
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