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To: Proud_Infidel who wrote (48635)	8/23/2000 1:44:02 PM
From: Randy Ellingson	Respond to of 74651

>> Didn't EBAY crash only 2 months ago? << It looks like most problems are hardware related... www2.ebay.com As mentioned earlier the eBay site was unavailable from 02:04 Pacific Time to 04:15 Pacific Time on Wednesday, August 23. The reason for this outage was a failure in one the disk subsystems which stores some of the eBay data. This system has a built-in redundancy designed to kick in without user impact and has in the past successfully done so. When the redundancy of the disk system failed, we attempted to switch to our backup system. The redundancy issue also prevented us from switching to our secondary system. We then started the process of switching to our tertiary back-up system. During this time, our engineers resolved the original issue and brought the site back up. We are working with our vendor to resolve this issue. We apologize to all eBay users impacted by this outage.