[img src="" caption="" credit="" alt=""]
Royal Pingdom has taken it upon itself to commemorate the best outages of 2007, and we're taking the opportunity to reflect on these disasters of servers and technology as we close out the year.
Remember when...
[img src="" caption="" credit="" alt=""]
Twitter took a Turn for the Worse? A scheduled maintenance for the micro-blogging network never seemed to take place, but a whole lot of mobile users found themselves going through withdrawal as nearly 6 days went by without Twitter functionality. While an isolated occurrence for some, the whole situation left a bad taste in many users' mouths. The scheduled maintenance excuse eventually became an announcement of a required upgrade consisting of a move to a new data center. Hopefully that will hold Twitter down for 2008.
San Francisco Lost Power? A major outage at Pacific Gas and Electric left several big-name websites and web-based services out in the dark. From Craigslist to AdBrite, Technorati and LiveJournal, and even Second Life and Yelp, the power outage in the world's center for technology-based applications used on the Internet hit us all pretty hard.
See here for Pingdom's full list. Also be sure to check out coverage of Pingdom's look at the uptime of popular social networks.