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Wikipedia suffers 2-hour downtime due to cut fiber cables

Discussion in 'TechSpot News and Comments' started by Leeky, Aug 7, 2012.

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  1. Leeky TS Special Forces Posts: 4,353   +68

    Online encyclopedia Wikipedia suffered an outage around 14:30 GMT for two hours yesterday after two crucial fiber cables close to one of their datacenters in Florida were accidently cut, resulting in the site and its associated services running very sluggish…

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    Leeky, Aug 7, 2012
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  2. gwailo247 TechSpot Chancellor Posts: 2,105   +18

    Wikimedia's statement was then promptly removed by an editor citing "original research".
    gwailo247, Aug 7, 2012
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  3. DanUK TechSpot Enthusiast Posts: 170

    Was wondering what this was when I was reading articles then it suddenly all stalled!
    DanUK, Aug 7, 2012
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