Saturday, July 7, 2007

Yahoo Performance Issues Documented

Following up on the claims regarding Yahoo being down for many users yesterday, I found more evidence for Yahoo problems.

Netcraft graphs show significant performance problems for Yahoo yesterday.

Netcraft.com reported the following regarding the problems.

Yahoo's web sites experienced brief performance problems earlier today, with users in some areas experiencing more significant problems than others. Yahoo is one of the world's busiest web sites (currently the number two Web destination for users of the Netcraft toolbar), and thus the outages have been noted by the Internet Storm Center and news outlets. The yahoo.com home page was inaccessible for several hours from our London monitoring station and responded more slowly than usual from several locations in the U.S. Yahoo search appears to have experienced lengthier availability problems than the home page and other Yahoo services.


I haven't found any explanation from Yahoo regarding the performance problems. If I do read any official responses, I will post them here, but I wouldn't count on any coming soon.

As for other websites, reports of problematic issues have been posted, but seem to be slowing now. I think problems being reported now are the usual hiccups noticed by us all daily. I am still curious as to whether the problems were due to widespread distribution of new trojans, or unique occurances for those involved.

I'm keeping my firewalls and scans updated, just in case.