Take a Zoom holiday as conference service goes down across US and UK

[brooklynite]

Source: 9 to 5 Mac

If you’re trying to jump on a Zoom call today for work or school and having trouble, you’re not alone. The video conferencing service is seeing an outage impacting users across the US and UK. While some users are rightfully frustrated, others are excited about a Zoom holiday.

Users started seeing issues with Zoom just before 6 am PT including the inability to start and join video calls. Some users are also having trouble with Zoom’s website.

Zoom noted on its system status page that it has figured out what’s causing the problem and is “working on a fix.”

Thousands of users experiencing trouble have logged the problems on Down Detector with the hot spots right now being the US and UK. However, reports of the outage are showing up from various countries around the world too.



Read more: https://9to5mac.com/2020/08/24/zoom-outage-us-uk/

[Mike 03]

1. Oh noes!! Will this affect transmissions at the RNC convention? nt

[brooklynite]

2. Not to worry! OAN is doing a live feed (even the business meeting) Trump will get his ego stroke

[catrose]

3. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Honestly, it might help them not to put on this circus. Not that I want to.

[Talitha]

10. "Will this affect transmissions at the RNC convention?"

They'll blame President Obama.

[Sherman A1]

4. Ooopps

I was supposed to have a Zoom meeting at 11am Central time with an investment advisor. Guess that will be off today....

[catrose]

5. I admire how Zoom stepped up to become everybody's living room, office, and community gathering

jumping from business meetings (which they did better than their competitors). They've worked hard on the inevitable growing pains.

[machoneman]

6. Jammin'! I'd love to see us jam a lot of the RNC's shitshow. That would be great!

[getagrip_already]

7. hopefully they are relying on it to coordinate between speakers.....

The networks will still cover the mess, but if they can't "produce" the event because they can't connect, it will be a bigger mess than usual.

[melm00se]

8. the word is

that Zoom's infrastructure was unprepared for the sheer volume of meetings starting up simultaneously as distance learning kicked off in the various time zones.

Call setup sucks up a lot of resources and if the server farmer isn't prepared, that much traffic can cause a cascade effect and the system goes poof.

this has happened, at one time or another, with Cisco, Adobe and the other similar meeting platforms. the spike in traffic is always underestimated.

[IthinkThereforeIAM]

11. That was my first thought on the Zoom outage...

... that their server(s) were unable to keep up with the traffic increase due to more schools reopening and using their service.

I would also like to see if DoS attacks are occurring, too. That was my second thought.

[Javaman]

9. sadly, mine is still working. :( nt