Hello Army Football Fans and Subscribers to GBK:
Yahoo Media sites globally are currently having outages ? including a 23-minute complete outage for Rivals that is now fixed.
TO BE CLEAR: [/B]This was not a Rivals technology issue. Unfortunately now as Rivals migrates (slowly) to Yahoo, any of Yahoo's latency issues or outages can now bring Rivals down.
Prior to SSL, this problem would not have affected Rivals. The bad comes with the good, unfortunately, as we roll onto Yahoo's platform. Best part, is that we had scores (if not nearly 100) engineers globally handling this issue.
In preparation for latency and outages, Yahoo recently built a "failsafe" mode that forwards all users to a fixed number of sites. For example, going to the baseball page should forward you to yahoo sports with a saved version of the page from 5 minutes ago.
Unfortunately, this "failsafe" broke Rivals and a number of other Yahoo media sites. This is the best explanation for today's outage.
Thank you for understanding.
Yahoo Media sites globally are currently having outages ? including a 23-minute complete outage for Rivals that is now fixed.
TO BE CLEAR: [/B]This was not a Rivals technology issue. Unfortunately now as Rivals migrates (slowly) to Yahoo, any of Yahoo's latency issues or outages can now bring Rivals down.
Prior to SSL, this problem would not have affected Rivals. The bad comes with the good, unfortunately, as we roll onto Yahoo's platform. Best part, is that we had scores (if not nearly 100) engineers globally handling this issue.
In preparation for latency and outages, Yahoo recently built a "failsafe" mode that forwards all users to a fixed number of sites. For example, going to the baseball page should forward you to yahoo sports with a saved version of the page from 5 minutes ago.
Unfortunately, this "failsafe" broke Rivals and a number of other Yahoo media sites. This is the best explanation for today's outage.
Thank you for understanding.
