Server Failure Kills Cox Email Over Weekend

By | Dec 17, 2012
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Server Failure Kills Cox Email Over Weekend (via slashdot)

ISP Cox Communications experienced an email outage over virtually the entire weekend, in what appeared to be a significant server issue. The email storage platform that supports residential customers failed sometime Friday evening, causing all residential customers in Oklahoma to lose access to their…


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  1. BY Cicuta says:
    | December 17, 2012

    I guess they don’t believe in servers’ redundancy through a load balancer such as F5. I would not have email with them specially if it is not for free.

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