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QRZ Temporarily Shut Down by Amazon Web Services Outage

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  1. AA7BQ

    AA7BQ QRZ Founder QRZ HQ Staff QRZ Page

    Our cloud services provider, Amazon.com, suffered some kind of big network failure this morning, knocking hundreds of websites offline, including QRZ. The outage lasted about 2.5 hours and it looks like the worst of it may be behind us.

    You can read more about it here, at <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2012/10/22/aw...t-heroku-reddit-and-others-heroku-still-down/">TechCrunch.com<a>

    Meanwhile, it looks like QRZ has returned back to normal and things are running smoothly at this time. We would not be surprised if a few more hiccups take place throughout the day, but for now we'll keep our fingers crossed.

    Thanks everyone for your patience.
     
  2. K6ZGI

    K6ZGI Ham Member QRZ Page

    I've been having QRZ go off line for the last several days....thanks for the heads up with whats happening.....K6ZGI
     
  3. K8ERV

    K8ERV QRZ Member QRZ Page

    I was having a QRZ attack.

    TOM K8ERV Montrose Colo
     
  4. WJ4U

    WJ4U Subscriber QRZ Page

    Coincidentally :confused: Verizon landline service was also down. No derecho storm this time.
     
  5. KF7BSI

    KF7BSI Ham Member QRZ Page

  6. WW7F

    WW7F Guest

    Fred, Thanks for letting us know asap what is up.
    I did some investigating and digured it was related to the cloud I noticed last night about 11 PM it slowed down here a lot then today was gone. 73 thanks for a great site,Michelle:)
     
  7. WA6MHZ

    WA6MHZ Ham Member QRZ Page

    Missed U at Pacificon, Fred! Was all excited on finally a chance to meet you, but guess other plans canceled your trip there. SOMEDAY I will cross paths with U!
    73
     
  8. AF6LJ

    AF6LJ Ham Member QRZ Page

    Thanks for the heads up Fred...

    Roommate stayed home, took a vacation day. we found plenty to do like play one round of TeamFortress-2 that lasted 4:08, not the longest that round lasted just over six hours.
    We had fun. sorry to hear The Zed was down.....
     
  9. K2WH

    K2WH Platinum Subscriber Platinum Subscriber Life Member QRZ Page

    Hate to say we told you so. The cloud is not immune and or impervious to failure.

    K2WH
     
  10. K4HX

    K4HX Ham Member QRZ Page

    Sorry to hear about the problems. The cloud giveth and the cloud taketh away.
     
  11. WK1W/SK2022

    WK1W/SK2022 Ham Member QRZ Page

    internet may fail, but HAM RADIO prevails (propagation nothwithstanding).
    Ivan
    KB1STH/AE
     
  12. WX1DX

    WX1DX Ham Member QRZ Page

    time for better server than amazon like Google!

    this is the 3-4 times this year that I'm aware that QRZ has gone off line. time to to look at a better server system than amazon! Also is any one else concerned that I know part of the US air forces computer security screening system was off line all day as well? Wonder is this might have been a hack of the system regardless of what the company is saying.

    EVERYONE REMEMBER TO GO VOTE EARLY VOTING SITES ARE OPEN ALREADY!





     
  13. AA4HI

    AA4HI XML Subscriber QRZ Page

    Just go to hamqth.com . It is a great callsign server .
     
  14. W0HAO

    W0HAO QRZ Moderator Platinum Subscriber QRZ Page

    I think this is the cyber attack we have been hearing about..
     
  15. PA3KC

    PA3KC XML Subscriber QRZ Page

    QRZ makes allot of money from amateurs who provide there info for free. Can't they find a decent hoster that doesn't go of the grid from time to time? :confused:
     
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