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mir

Member

Not being able to access Hotmail

Today i was checking my hotmail
i kept getting the following message

We are experiencing higher than normal volume and are therefore unable to service your request at this time. Try one of the following:

In your browser, click Refresh
In your browser, click Back, and try again
Wait a few minutes and try again
We apologize for this inconvenience

http://www.hotmail.msn.com/toobusy.html?s=BAY0-LC2-027

Do you think someone is DDOSing Hotmail lol
(DDOS = Distributed Denial of Service)
Anyone has any idea about the number of users in hotmail and their servers capacity?
same question for gmail..yahoo and others

What can the user do if their servers aren't running and they don't fix it?
sue them ? considering that it is a free service.. but lot of people depend on free email for important data

Last edited by mir (April 18 2006)

mahdoum

Member

Re: Not being able to access Hotmail

you can't sue it's free, and there are no guarantees. and anyway there will always be a lot of users on hotmail at once (look at the probability of "lots" of people being on hotmail at once, small, but it does happen)

mir

Member

Re: Not being able to access Hotmail

anyway.. this is not happening again

so no such thing as denial of service on microsoft website

well i thought that maybe microsoft is not taking or dedicating much effort w hardware specs for its Hotmail service
but guess was wrong..