Authorize.net goes down July 3rd, 2009 from Industry News
Authorize.net suffered an outage this morning. Current rumors suggest that it was due to a fire at a data-center, which subsequently destroyed the backup generators from the sprinklers.
Authorize.net is currently the largest payment gateway in the world. This is affecting millions of websites right now. To my knowledge this is the first major outage since the DDOS attack they suffered several years ago.
A casualty of this magnitude has the ability to permanently damage / destroy this company’s trust and reputation.