A few days after the severe outage started, Netflix shipping has started up again, hoping to reach its pre-outage volume. As reported by Associated Press, shipments began rolling out again late Friday (8/15/2008), after suffering a severe service interruption on Tuesday (8/12/2008). As incentive to retain customers, the impacted customers are going to be awarded [...]
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An update to the initial post about the massive Netflix system outage: A CNBC reporter, Jim Goldman, just reported that some Netflix customers were sent E-mails by the company discussing the system-wide shipping outage. He says he talked with a contact at Netflix sometime after 11:00 AM ET today to follow up, and he was told [...]
As the Netflix [NFLX] systemwide outage continues from this past Tuesday (two days ago, 8/12/2008), it has been noted that NO shipments of DVD’s went out on the day of system failure (Tuesday), a very small amount of shipments went out yesterday (Wednesday), and NO shipments went out today (yet). Supposedly the Netflix engineers are [...]
