Web Outage

Aegean · Nov 23, 2012

12.33 UK Time:

Just to let you guys know, I've just spoken to an engineering colleague of mine, some chap with a JCB has gone through a fibre-optic cable near Manchester, apparently this is affecting up to one third of UK websites.

About 70% of my clients sites are down at the moment, but there is an engineering team on-site right now fixing things. I just thought I'd post this in case any of you were experiencing unusual problems today, its probably not your website, more likely to be this.

I'll post an update as soon as I get one.

accelerator · Nov 23, 2012

Rather surprising that such a thing can affect so many sites.

fish · Nov 23, 2012

I misread the title for web outrage :lol: i guess given the cockup there may well be some ...

monaghan · Nov 23, 2012

Interesting, read a post yesterday about a JCB & fibre in docklands, all we need is Maidenhead and that's the 3 biggest concentrations of hosts targeted

Aegean · Nov 24, 2012

Apparently it was a 6 inch thick fiber optic cable, so thats a main trunk if thats true.

It was fixed around 4PM UK time yesterday, sorry I was slow with the update, I spent yesterday afternoon trying to pacify annoyed customers.