PayPal collapsed at noon
“About an hour ago, PayPal began to experience problems with the site, which caused the functionality of receiving and sending payments. We are making every effort to remedy the situation . "
This message was published in the official PayPal blog yesterday at 12:02 PDT (23:02 Moscow time). After 40 minutes, the engineers reported that "the site is now working for most users," and after another three hours the service earned for everyone. The problem, as it turned out, was caused by the failure of network equipment in PayPal.
The fall of the largest payment system on the Internet for about one and a half to two hours (or even more ) could not go unnoticed . After all, PayPal passes payments at $ 2000 per second. That is, even a minute of simple - already noticeable losses, what can we say about the two-hour downtime ($ 2000 * 60 * 60 * 2 = $ 14.4 million of lost money).
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We add that not only the site, but also the API was inaccessible, so the work of the payment system was completely blocked.
This message was published in the official PayPal blog yesterday at 12:02 PDT (23:02 Moscow time). After 40 minutes, the engineers reported that "the site is now working for most users," and after another three hours the service earned for everyone. The problem, as it turned out, was caused by the failure of network equipment in PayPal.
The fall of the largest payment system on the Internet for about one and a half to two hours (or even more ) could not go unnoticed . After all, PayPal passes payments at $ 2000 per second. That is, even a minute of simple - already noticeable losses, what can we say about the two-hour downtime ($ 2000 * 60 * 60 * 2 = $ 14.4 million of lost money).
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We add that not only the site, but also the API was inaccessible, so the work of the payment system was completely blocked.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/66199/
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