Skype, RackSpace Among Big Wrecks In '07

There is no greater feeling of dread for an admin than seeing a system go offline, and nothing works to get it going again.

The sinking sensation of helplessness confounded several technology providers of various stripes in 2007. Worse for their customers, service outages that occupied hours or even days left people equally frustrated as they waited for restoration.

The RackSpace outage, one that proved Valleywag later said 365 Main was up for sale.

Tech power Google was not immune from the outage bug, either. Their Blogger service and Google Analytics both experienced issues. As Pingdom recounted, Google even removed its own official blog by accident at one point.

Granted, it's small comfort to take, but remember as your company's hard disks spin to a soul-crushing halt that you aren't the only one who's had to face that kind of adversity.