=== Amazon.com's Simple Storage Service--a major component of its online computing services--is apparently experiencing problems Sunday. The e-tailer's "Service Health Dashboard" reports that the S3 service in both the United States and Europe is experiencing "elevated error rates." The outage is causing CenterNetworks images to break, the site reports, and SmugMug reports that "a large portion of the photos and videos stored" on S3 are currently offline. SmugMug seemed sympathetic to Amazon's woes and offered this advice: Every component SmugMug has ever used, whether it's networking providers, datacenter providers, software, servers, storage, or even people, has let us down at one point or another. It's the name of the game, and our job is to handle these problems and outages as best we can. === http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-9995301-93.html ( I am a smugmug client, and my site is down at the moment as well; even the outage.mg page took over 30s to load. The associated SmugBlog posting with some more details is here: http://smugmug.wordpress.com/2008/07/20/amazon-s3-outage-causes-smugmug-outa... ) Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink jra@baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com '87 e24 St Petersburg FL USA http://photo.imageinc.us +1 727 647 1274 Those who cast the vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything. -- (Josef Stalin)