Amazon's homepage was down

Re:Amazon's homepage was down by largehotcoffee on Thursday January 31, 2013 @02:51PM (#5146986)

Unfortunately changing the URL from http://www.amazon.com/?down=yes to http://www.amazon.com/?down=no does not appear to fix the problem.

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Re:Amazon's homepage was down by up_and_up on Thursday January 31, 2013 @02:59PM (#5147035)

This seems to be working for me: http://www.amazon.com/?is_it_jeff=yes

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Re:Amazon's homepage was down by cobrabyte on Thursday January 31, 2013 @03:04PM (#5147076)

Seems to me that it's probably the caching layer that's borked.

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Re:Amazon's homepage was down by nbashaw on Thursday January 31, 2013 @03:03PM (#5147064)

Looks like it's back up

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Re:Amazon's homepage was down by lifeguard on Thursday January 31, 2013 @03:13PM (#5147126)

Http/1.1 Service Unavailable

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Re:Amazon's homepage was down by singleuse on Thursday January 31, 2013 @03:12PM (#5147122)

still down from western europe. And to isup.me : http://www.isup.me/amazon.com

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Re:Amazon's homepage was down by amitlan on Thursday January 31, 2013 @03:08PM (#5147099)

it is up.

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Re:Amazon's homepage was down by HelloMcFly on Thursday January 31, 2013 @03:16PM (#5147145)

Not for me (America).

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Re:Amazon's homepage was down by shardling on Thursday January 31, 2013 @03:26PM (#5147217)

Up for me (Kentucky)

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Re:Amazon's homepage was down by lifeisstillgood on Thursday January 31, 2013 @04:53PM (#5147727)

Why is_it_jeff?

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Re:Amazon's homepage was down by darkstar999 on Thursday January 31, 2013 @04:55PM (#5147741)

Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon.

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Re:Amazon's homepage was down by lifeisstillgood on Thursday January 31, 2013 @05:56PM (#5148017)

I got that bit thank you :-) but I did not understand why there might be a web page on amazon named after bozos, some sort of test page? Or a joke that has completely passed me by?

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Re:Amazon's homepage was down by pestaa on Thursday January 31, 2013 @06:30PM (#5148194)

It's a joke like if you could add a parameter in the URL stating you're the CEO of the company and you will be granted access no matter what.

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Re:Amazon's homepage was down by mhurron on Thursday January 31, 2013 @03:02PM (#5147055)

What the hell?

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Re:Amazon's homepage was down by dmn001 on Thursday January 31, 2013 @04:10PM (#5147489)

I'm fairly certain the OP only added that text after the link so that it would be allowed by the duplicate link filter on HN.

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Re:Amazon's homepage was down by pferate on Thursday January 31, 2013 @03:06PM (#5147089)

Funny. I followed the "down=yes" link and got the "Service unavailable" page, as expected.

Then I clicked on the "down=no" link for fun, and the page partially loaded for me. I refreshed it and got the whole front page loaded. And then one more time and got the "Service unavailable" again...

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