Netflix Down: What the Hell? Not Web Site Maintenance & Outage for 8 Hours Must Be Under Attack
July 13th, 2009
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What the Hell Netflix? The web site has been down for over 8 hours. It is not due to web site maintenance as initially reported. Netflix Director of Corporate Communications confirms it has nothing to do with maintenance. “It was an unanticipated, unplanned outage and we apologize to our customers.”
At this point and since Netflix refuses to communicate either via twitter, by their blog, or through other major web sites it must be under attack. In all likelihood it is a Denial of Service attack similar to that which affected several government web sites as well as media web sites last week.
Why else would Netflix refuse to communicate and offer only up the pitiful outage message for the last 8 hours:
