outage

On Monday an online payment services leader PayPal shut down worldwide for about an hour which was caused by "internal" problems with the fast-growing division. The downtime started at 10:30 a.m. Pacific Time and affected all users for about an hour. All customers had regained service as of 3:30 p.m. On the official blog eBay spokesperson Anuj Nayar brought apologies for the outage and explained what happened:

Yesterday users worldwide were reporting outages on a number of Google services, including Gmail, Google News, Google Docs, Google Calendar, Google Analytics, Google Maps, Google AdSense, and Google Search. Google in turn admitted that there was some problem which has not been solved. The problem was ascribed to the traffic slowdown on a routing mistake.

AlertPay payment system has finally updated the information on problems which recently have occurred. Here is the original text of the company's statement:

We have received updated information from Multi-Marketing Corp who is our ACH/EFT service provider through Royal Bank of Canada (RBC). On Tuesday, January 27th, 2009 the Legal Representative for RBC contacted AlertPay requesting that we remove