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Internet Meltdowns of 2010 You Need to Know
Dec 22, 2010
In what has become a yearly tradition, it's now time for us to present 10 of the most noteworthy incidents on the Internet from this past year. As you'll see, 2010 has been very interesting. Just like previous years, we have included problems ranging from website outages and service issues to large-scale network interruptions. If you're an avid Web user, you are bound to recognize several of them. Let's get started! The major incidents on the Internet in 2010 were… Wikipedia's Failover Fail Wikipedia has become so ubiquitous that it can't go down for a minute without people noticing. According to Google Trends for Websites , the site has roughly 50 million visitors per day. In March, servers in Wikimedia's European data center overheated and shut down. The service was supposed to fail over to a US data center. Unfortunately, the failover mechanism didn't work properly and broke the DNS lookups for all of Wikipedia . This effectively rendered the site unreachable worldwide. It took...
