posted on January 4, 2001 11:52:54 AM
*** Letter from Meg ***
Dear eBay Community:
Yesterday, the eBay site was unavailable to our users for almost 11 hours. This outage was the result of a series of failures that affected both our primary and backup systems. It was compounded by a decision we made to delay the replacement of certain hardware components in an
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I am really glad that Meg is there at ebay keeping us informed of all of the servers and operating systems that she works on. She really must know a lot about those strange and mysterious things we call "computers" to keep that big site running like a well-oiled watch! Or maybe even just like an oily watch! Wow! Go MEG!!
Now Meg I was wondering if you can help me - I really want to learn about PC's but I have a problem because this PC that I bought off ebay turned out to be a Commodore 64! The computer scientists from the local college just don't understand how I was able to load windows and office on this C64 and then connect to the Internet like a breeze! Meg if you or your highly technical friends at ebay can answer this question I am sure that will help us figure out why ebay might have crashed - THANKS!
