By Sajal Kayan

For about 2 hours, anxious internet users were deprived of their access to their emails, now online shoppers will have to wait for a while since there is an unexplained outage at www.dell.com

According to Techcrunch Dell Computers website has been offline since 5 PM EST. Users visiting the website are greeted by : “Service Unavailable. HTTP Error 503. The service is unavailable.”, it does imply something went terribly wrong.

According to World Wide Web Consortium, HTTP 503 error is defined as:-

The server is currently unable to handle the request due to a temporary overloading or maintenance of the server. The implication is that this is a temporary condition which will be alleviated after some delay. If known, the length of the delay MAY be indicated in a Retry-After header. If no Retry-After is given, the client SHOULD handle the response as it would for a 500 response.

Dell, Inc. is a multinational technology corporation that develops, manufactures, sells, and supports personal computers and other computer-related products. Based in Round Rock, Texas, Dell employs more than 76,500 people worldwide as of 2009.

Edit : As on about 5:45 PM (EST), www.dell.com came back online. It was down for an estimated 40 to 45 mins