Authorize.net goes down

July 3rd, 2009 in: Industry News

Authnet 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.

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  • olive winning betting strategies on July 4th, 2009 at 12:35 am

    What happened to redundancy? You would think that a company as big as Authorize.net would have some sort of data backup / failover system so this could not happen..

  • marcelino on July 29th, 2009 at 9:31 pm

    No fail safe system,(redundancy), how did they manage to over look something so vital to their operation.

  • Dan on August 11th, 2009 at 11:12 am

    Just cause your the biggest doesn’t mean your the most competent, just means you have the most corporate dollars backing you.

  • Ritz Carlton Photographer on August 26th, 2009 at 4:04 am

    Wow.. toppled down by just a DDOS.. Need to tighten that security screw it’s been loose for a long time.

  • james lin on September 3rd, 2009 at 3:13 pm

    Who are the top 5 gateways in terms of number of transactions annually in your view?

  • Bernadus on September 7th, 2009 at 9:51 am

    I am sure they can handle the problem. If not, they sure will loose all the trust from its customer. They are dead.

  • Ecommerce Solutions on September 14th, 2009 at 10:35 pm

    This was a surprise to many people that this actually happened. A lot of customers were affected and REALLY mad.

    They have to handle these situations very carefully.

  • Arizona Merchant Accounts on September 24th, 2009 at 12:33 pm

    I think that it is toppled down by just a DDOS.. Need to tighten that security screw it’s been loose for a long time.

  • credit card processing on November 21st, 2009 at 1:16 pm

    AuthorizeNet’s back up data center was very close to being completed when the fire happened. It’s online now so hopefully there won’t be a complete credit card processing outage again with AuthorizeNet. Nice to see even though thier main site was down they were still able to update clients via twitter.

  • Merchant account services on December 14th, 2009 at 5:34 am

    I think there is no need to woory about it. Authorized.Net’s data recovery system works well.
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