>> Ah coincidence then
Yes & No.
In reality the site was still working fine, it was just DNS was borked... and you could still get to it if either DNS was cached or via the IP.
I dont know what my hosts do for sure, but it looks like they possibly have one box at rapidshare doing their DNS and another at UKWeb.... and can switch between the 2.
My hosts were fairly quickly able to switch over to their backup nameservers which resolved it
Unfortunately any sites actually hosted with rapidswitch, or any sites whose hosts were on rapidswitch's server farms, or any sites whose hosts use rapidswitches nameservers without having a redundant system, will have been seeing problems for much longer.
Looked pretty bad.. there were still problems about 24 hours later... and many many sites affected.
>> not a good advert for Rapidswitch.
Nope it isnt
Particularly in view of their '
catfight & champagne' marketing campaign which was only this week. Theyve now got egg on their face big time :/
Whoops there goes the 100% SLA. Wonder how much this is going to cost them.... both in financial terms and their reputation.