Internet Archive Blames 'Environmental Factors' For Overnight Outages

The Internet Archive took a tumble overnight after "environmental factors" downed the Wayback Machine, leaving archive.org wobbling in a way that might bring a smile to the faces of certain publishers wishing for its demise. From a report: According to the organization, there was a "brief power outage in one of our datacenters," which was followed by "environmental factors," causing the service blackout. Those environmental factors are likely to be an increase in heat following a cooling outage. By this morning, The Internet Archive was reporting that things were back up and running again. However, some users (this writer included) are still experiencing the odd error or two when accessing the organization's services.

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