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by tamade-ganinia June 6, 2008 10:48 AM PDT
started at 10:30am and its now 10:46am and I still cant access it.
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by ibeetle June 6, 2008 10:54 AM PDT
It is obvious that Amazon has shut down their site to restructure it to keep up with the high demand come Monday when the new iPhone goes on sale.
In fact I saw a report that the entire internet except those that sell iPhones will completely shut down; Even all retailers except Apple stores and AT&T stores will close for business Monday.
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by mkrieger0101 June 6, 2008 11:05 AM PDT
Absolutely hilarious.

Also-Amazon had a small number of metal gear solid 80 gig PS3 bundles at noon central time, maybe that messed them up.
by wclanders June 6, 2008 11:07 AM PDT
Do everyone a favor and cancel your internet account.
by eeee June 7, 2008 7:05 AM PDT
ibeetle: what nonsense!!!
the whole internet will not shut down because of an iphone

the whole internet will shut down when we have pigs that fly
by darthgerber June 6, 2008 11:00 AM PDT
11:00AM and still down... :(
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by Dyp June 6, 2008 11:01 AM PDT
2pm in the east coast and still not accessible

@ibeetle: funny.
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by ChicoJones June 6, 2008 11:02 AM PDT
The amazon.com website is still available by using the https protocol, such as: https://www.amazon.com/.


Thanks.
Chico "goz" Jones
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by whitewater June 6, 2008 11:10 AM PDT
Unfortunately since all of the links point back to the http site, you can't get past the home page.
by PS3Gamer_MGS4 June 6, 2008 11:13 AM PDT
This is all over the PS3 forums. The pre-order for the Metal Gear Solid 4 - 80GB PS3 bundle went on sale a few minutes before Amazon went down.
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by KEtheredge87 June 6, 2008 11:16 AM PDT
This might be pure coincidence, but Amazon opened their pre-order option for the 80GB Metal Gear Solid 4 Playstation 3 bundle at 10AM Pacific time. Their site shut down soon after that. Perhaps they were flooded with anxious MGS fans trying to get their 80GB PS3's?
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by RHartzell June 6, 2008 11:22 AM PDT
ChicoJones: Visiting the secure version of the site doesn't help much -- all the links on the home page go to nonsecure pages that don't display.
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by enlighten86 June 6, 2008 11:22 AM PDT
It's more than just Amazon - there are problems with other sites as well it seems. I've been getting Page Can Not be Displayed errors all morning.
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by Dead Soulman June 6, 2008 11:37 AM PDT
I was wondering why I couldn't connect past the front page. Wow, this is crazy. 2:36pm. It seems to be coming back by sections.
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by 64bprophet June 6, 2008 11:37 AM PDT
Hy, did you see? Amazon.com has a job opening for a Systems Administrator... I wonder what happened to the old one?
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by thesplintercell June 6, 2008 11:38 AM PDT
it's ironic that this made the news....i was online to buy my fiance a navigation system for her birthday and couldn't get on amazon to do it. even worse, i found the same unit @ buydig for 10 bucks cheaper than amazon, so i just snagged it from there.
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by mhinnewyork June 6, 2008 11:38 AM PDT
As of 2:38PM ET, Amazon is still down.
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by taotaobabe June 6, 2008 11:42 AM PDT
at least gold box works

http://www.amazon.com/gp/goldbox/ref=cs_top_nav_gb27
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by Jamie_Foster June 6, 2008 11:46 AM PDT
Don't they use Linux/Apache. Maybe Windows Server/IIS is better engineered than people want to admit.
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by The_Decider June 6, 2008 12:52 PM PDT
Yeah right, even if the cause was an OS or a web server, that doesn't prove that MS's laughable server products aren't still crap. I guess your comment makes sense to MS fan boys.
by DigitalSnowman June 6, 2008 11:46 AM PDT
I don't think this has to do with the release of Metal Gear pre-orders (sorry, PS3 just isn't popular enough) or "preparing for the new iPhone" - no business will take their site down for HOURS during peak sales time during the day without so much as a "sorry, we're doing maintenance" page for the sale of a single product. These things might be popular in the eyes of the people interested in them, but the rest of the public isn't biting its nails in anticipation of a new cell phone or video game.

I'm speculating that this is a routing issue with one of Amazon's top-tier data pipe providers. All it takes is one person to flip the wrong switch or update a routing table incorrectly and all of a sudden a site becomes inaccessible. Changes in routing info take time to spread across the internet, so the problem may be resolved, but all of the downstream routers need to update their info to transfer the data correctly again. It looks like Amazon will be buying a backup data pipe from a completely different provider for their systems in the future.
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by eeee June 7, 2008 6:49 AM PDT
thanks snowman
People are so wound up in their silly new phones or games that they think the whole universe revolves around them and their interest

"the whole internet is shut down" what nonsense ! ! !
by hackian June 6, 2008 11:47 AM PDT
Their web service status page shows these services seem to be up...
http://status.aws.amazon.com/
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by StickyC June 6, 2008 12:04 PM PDT
Maybe they're jealous of Twitter's recent headlines?
They say there's no such thing as bad PR...
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by tamade-ganinia June 6, 2008 12:04 PM PDT
its only the front end as far as i could tell. I've been working on the sellercentral part of amazon doing inventory and orders when I noticed that all links to the front is unaccessible.
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by Dead Soulman June 6, 2008 12:20 PM PDT
I was wondering why I couldn't connect past the front page. Wow, this is crazy. 2:36pm. It seems to be coming back by sections.
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