Maybe you heard that Netflix had some server breakdowns earlier this week that took their site and entire operations offline for 11 hours (and just six days after their stock hit an all time high). There's still no official explanation of what caused the outage though it seems fairly reminiscent of when a jilted employee knocked out all the power at 365 Main a popular datacenter and half the internet was down for a day.
Netflix's subscribers ranted, pontificated and hatched conspiracy theories but Motley Fool gamely reports that not only did the stock price hold solid throughout but that users totally love outages. Because "[a]s long as the outage is brief, the downtime is often a model-affirming event, as users realize how much they rely on the befallen services."
And this morning I received this message:
Which reminded me of the spate of new stories a few years ago about medical malpractice lawsuits being reduced by some 30% when doctors simply apologized and owned up to mistakes.
But no such worries, Netflix, an extra day between me and Jennifer Lopez's turn as a lady detective in Bordertown probably isn't hurting anyone.
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