Cable & Wireless site shows outages
15th June, 2003
Cable & Wireless, which recently announced that it would sell or close its North American operations, suffered several hours of outages on its main web site earlier today. Ironically, the site is still hosted in the US, presumably by the very same operations that it is trying to divest.
Posted by Mike Prettejohn in Hosting
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