By Meena Kar
Dec. 19, (THAINDIAN NEWS) These days, internet users all over the world are experiencing a common problem, downtime of several major sites. Facebook, Twitter, AT&T and several other important websites were affected by several technical difficulties at different point of time, creating inconveniences among the users. Downtime problem is not only restricted to technical difficulties of websites but also for server outage for different web hosting companies. On Friday afternoon, a major web hosting company, Rackspace, based in Dallas reported server outage that affected many websites.

As per the reports, TechCrunch and Mashable were among the site that got affected for the server outage of the Dallas based web hosting firm. The reports also indicated that several major news portals were down through Friday for the same server problem and annoyed the users.

Internet users are already irritated for the technical problems and hacking of several major sites and yesterday’s server outage annoyed them further. According to the official reports, the server problem that caused inconvenience to the users were caused by some technical difficulties. Though the official blog of the company mentioned about the technical difficulties, they did not confirm any report regarding the actual problem that led to the inconvenience.

This is not the first time that the company has been affected by a technical problem for their server. Last time, the company officials declared that power issues led to the server outage but this time the company officials have not blamed power issues for the server problem. They are yet to issue the actual reason leading to the server failure that let down several major sites.