Dang! A major failure at Akamai- the world's biggest content provider, towed down the world's four biggest websites in one go today. MSN, google, microsoft and yahoo all stopped working for two hours.
Akamai carry 15% of the Net's traffic. Companies pay it to seamlessly host their website content so files that appear to be at www.microsoft.com are, in reality, hosted at www.microsoft.akamai.net. Ironically, one of Akamai's main selling pitches for its technology is that it prevents there from being a single point of failure. Outsourcing content to a specialist like Akamai enables companies to concentrate on content rather than have to install their own infrastructure to deal with such things as denial-of-service attacks. But the concept appears to be rather like the Titanic - founded on the belief that Akamai is unsinkable.
Hence, in this case, when one site failed, four others went with it.

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