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Apple's Online Stores Mysteriously Offline
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I don't buy products directly from Apple because of the taxes. I'm fairly confident that I'm not the only person doing this. I'd wager most of the people buying directly from Apple either:
- Don't know how to add RAM and HDD themselves
- Need engraving
- Don't know any better.
Like messing with Paypal and Visa sites that their parent's use to pay for the internet they use.
Still down 8:10 Pacific Standard Time - but up again at 8:11
Rats! This morning I actually wanted to go to the store for something - had to come HERE to find out the scoop - as usual, MacRumors is on top of things!
This wan't a hack by Anonymous - they like to 'show off', not just make sites unloadable.
BACK UP NOW YAY! (But apparently a bit slow...)
Rats! This morning I actually wanted to go to the store for something - had to come HERE to find out the scoop - as usual, MacRumors is on top of things!
This wan't a hack by Anonymous - they like to 'show off', not just make sites unloadable.
BACK UP NOW YAY! (But apparently a bit slow...)
Apple may loose some sales but not anywhere near $6.6M/hour. The sales are merely delayed. It's not like customers that want to buy an iMac online will suddenly decide to buy an HP because Apple's website is down.
That's pretty cool, never noticed that before. It does mean though that Chrome sends information on page loading problems back to a central source.
Typically online computer purchases are not impulse buys, I'm betting most folks looking to buy something will be back or will simply turn to an Apple reseller like Amazon. Either way, a good percentage of those sales will not be lost. However, it is quite embarrassing to have your store down.
According to some people's reports in this thread (some got it back, others don't), I would assume that Apple is moving the Store to their new DataCenter and therefore, their IP block may be different.
It will take a while to return to some areas, depending on IP propagation.
In my case, I don't get the "be right back" message. it simply doesn't reply.
To confirm this, those who have the store back please try this:
- Open Terminal
- ping store.apple.com
- report back the IP you got.
- dscacheutil -flushcache
- test if the Apple Store is up. If it is, then ping again and compare the IP address to the previous one. Otherwise, just wait for noon time for DNS servers to update.
I got: 17.149.156.10 ( store.gcsis-apple.com.akadns.net )
That's an Akamai address.
UPDATE: As I was typing this, the store came back online, same IP address. Mmmm, maybe they did go down after all... Who knows... or setup a redirection to the new site in the meantime.
Anyone notice anything different with the Apple Store? Anything new???
It will take a while to return to some areas, depending on IP propagation.
In my case, I don't get the "be right back" message. it simply doesn't reply.
To confirm this, those who have the store back please try this:
- Open Terminal
- ping store.apple.com
- report back the IP you got.
- dscacheutil -flushcache
- test if the Apple Store is up. If it is, then ping again and compare the IP address to the previous one. Otherwise, just wait for noon time for DNS servers to update.
I got: 17.149.156.10 ( store.gcsis-apple.com.akadns.net )
That's an Akamai address.
UPDATE: As I was typing this, the store came back online, same IP address. Mmmm, maybe they did go down after all... Who knows... or setup a redirection to the new site in the meantime.
Anyone notice anything different with the Apple Store? Anything new???
Well, yes, on occasion I probably do lie. But not in this case. It wasn't working for me for a while, then it started working again.
LOL
Site loading just fine for me all of a sudden, and not moving particularly slow that I've noticed. Also, nothing new that I see, so effer,
it's time to go to work.
That's almost definitely not true. For the large majority of purchases that'd be true, but I'm sure there's a not-insignificant number of purchases that are lost forever for every minutes that the store is down.
It's a new macbook air...
Now online in the dutch apple store: http://www.apple.com/nl/macbookair/design.html
Now online in the dutch apple store: http://www.apple.com/nl/macbookair/design.html
Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPod; U; CPU iPhone OS 4_3_3 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/533.17.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.2 Mobile/8J2 Safari/6533.18.5)
Still no luck.
Still no luck.