Credit Card Processing Company Authorize.net Knocked Offline
 

Illustrating the continued fragility of the modern Internet, threads in both the Zen Cart and Web Hosting Talk forums indicate that one of the country's largest credit card authorization networks has gone completely offline. According to several posters, a "perfect storm" was created by the combination of a data center fire and the July 4 weekend holiday, resulting the company going completely dark for more than five hours and counting. The company's phone lines and this Authorize.net website remains offline as of this writing. If your weekend beer purchase didn't go through, now you know why....

http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/C...Offline-103256

probably some temporary screw up

Holy shit... authorize.net shouldn't have a temporary screwup, damn sure not like this one. That's like saying epoch & ccbill, together go down over a holiday weekend.

Not good it may seem.

:2 cents:

Wow... really? :1orglaugh

This is really fucking shit up

NOw the Gubment will step up and say that IF THEY HAD CONTROL.


Its all a conspiracy Man.

wow this is fucked up big time. my batch doesnt go out until the end of the day for new charges, but recurring ones did go through early this morning.

sites is down too

rebills scheduled in an hour, all transactions this am didnt work. killing me here

Seems we are back up!

a client of mine said they are still down and not able to process transactions. im unable to log into the site even, but wont find out if their API is down until later today :Oh crap

everything going fine

Its choppy, we are getting some and not others. everyone is going wild trying to catch up

very unfortunate what is happening to authorize.net, we have transaction servers in 4 different locations around the world to greatly reduce the chances of something like this occurring to ccbill... its regrettable that not many processors have similar redundencies

the internap datacenter they are in had a fire in the power room everyone was running off of backup power for a bit.

I'm just amazed that this thread got a whopping 15 replies on the largest adult webmaster forum on the internet. Wow.

16 replies now

Thats what I was thinking....but then again we only use them for our mainstream products

Sig Spot : )

I'll get the popcorn? The datacenter will provide the fire..