Hotmail down?

**mrwilhelm** · January 9th, 2003, 05:20 PM

FYI...

I've just received three phone calls in the last half hour from people saying they can't access their Hotmail. I went to the Hotmail site and sure enough it's deader than a door nail.

It looks like a complete outage. I don't think I can remember the last time that happened. I don't think I'd like to be working the Microsoft helpdesk right about now.

I noticed that their Messenger Service went down for six hours on Monday without explanation. You guys think someone out there who has it in for Microsoft is being naughty? It's been a while since there's been a newsworthy DOS attack.

**Wayward Clam** · January 9th, 2003, 09:28 PM

It's working now.

This actually happens quite regularly. Don't be surprised next time.

**NooNoo** · January 10th, 2003, 04:44 AM

Hotmail down?? Say it ain't so!! All that undeliverable spam! Where will it go??

**Darkstar** · January 10th, 2003, 01:08 PM

indeed

http://news.yahoo.com/fc?tmpl=fc&cid...search_engines

**mrwilhelm** · January 10th, 2003, 02:10 PM

Yeah, I'm used to seeing glitches with Hotmail, but I knew this was different. It was a complete outage and lasted over an hour. They say it's totally unrelated to Monday's outage (which still has no explantion), but I have to wonder.

And NooNoo, I know it's easy for people like you and I to ridicule Hotmail since we spend more time cleaning SPAM out of our in-box than we do actually using the service, but to those that actually use it as their primary e-mail address it was no laughing matter. With the advent of MSN Explorer there are far more such people than there used to be. I know, because I work with them all the time. It seems MSN Explorer did exactly what Microsoft had hoped it would do... lure the neophytes and PC-challenged away from AOL. Even my own kids aren't immune. In spite of every effort to ween them onto a real e-mail client using their POP e-mail address they insist on using MSN Explorer and Hotmail because they consider it to be so much easier. Yuk!

**Shard92** · January 10th, 2003, 03:32 PM

I too have been seeing alot more msn users. They usually don't last that long as they soon realize that it is no better and often much worse than aol is ( at least around here). The thing I find most anoying about msn is it behaves very much like aol, including a lot of the same type crashes and trashing of tcp/ip. Now being that they are microsoft you would think they could be a little friendlyier with their own operating system.

**Dark Millennium** · January 10th, 2003, 04:57 PM

Just for the record isn't hotmail run on Unix servers?

And whenever they try to switch it to Windows it results in these problems?

**Shard92** · January 10th, 2003, 05:03 PM

Originally posted by Dark Millennium
Just for the record isn't hotmail run on Unix servers?

And whenever they try to switch it to Windows it results in these problems?

Actually I thought it was something like beos or something similiar and yes

**sdrawkcab** · January 11th, 2003, 11:30 AM

Originally posted by Shard92
Actually I thought it was something like beos or something similiar and yes

Actually it's Solaris.

http://www.kirch.net/unix-nt/hotmail.html

**Wayward Clam** · January 11th, 2003, 01:29 PM

The funny part is they TRIED to migrate it over to Windows, but the migration was a disaster, and they ended up having to go back...

**Shard92** · January 14th, 2003, 02:10 PM

Originally posted by sdrawkcab
Actually it's Solaris.

http://www.kirch.net/unix-nt/hotmail.html

Thanks couldn't remember who it was

Yeah I remember that too Clam that was great!

**Darkstar** · January 15th, 2003, 02:06 PM

Wow. I haven't heard that one. If the best and brightest at MS can't do it, what chance do the rest of us schmucks have?

Not that I plan on migrating 10 million users this weekend, but still...

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