This situation is literally changing by the minute, but we thought it was worth a shot to report it since it has to do with a lot of e-store sales (includig our own JAMM Store).  We just got word that the service that handles a lot of e-vendor transactions, Authorize.net, went down for a while due to a fire at the data centre. Their website is still out, but apparently the processing services went up an hour or two ago (including Global Processing, whatever that is). The data backup center was apparently also affected, so this was pretty serious business. What’s interesting here is that Authorize.net has set up their own Twitter account to communicate with people in the meantime. Who would have expected Twitter to become such a go-to service for minute-by-miute updates?

I’m not going to tweet for a while. My 140 characters about eating a hamburger or brushing my teeth will just pale in comparison to fixing a data centre and keeping more millions of dollars in sales from being lost.