Authorize.net down from a single fire
A fire in Fisher Plaza, Seattle has cause a massive power outage causing leading IP-based payment gateway solution Authorize.Net to go down around approximately 11:15pm PST 7/2/09.
One of the largest gateways is brought down by a single fire taking online merchants and store fronts down with it. For the life of me I do not understand why a company of this size dealing with a magnitude of businesses from small to multimillion dollar would be set up in such a fashion that this would and could happen. You would have thought they would have had a backup of some sort in place just in case this happened. What are your thoughts on this?
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