Thursday, April 21, 2011

Amazon crash cripples D.C.-based Hotpads

The map based housing search - hotpads.comDistrict of Columbia-based Hotpads.com has been down all day, one of the unlucky group of web companies crippled by a crash in Amazon’s cloud service April 21, 2011.

The map-based property-search startup boasts about 200,000 daily visitors, who were today greeted with a lighthearted variant of the “technical difficulties” screen.

"HotPads is down. We'll be back as soon as possible!"


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