Last.fm Brags About Uptime, Overheats, Goes Offline

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Sunday, May 31st, 2009

Music service Last.fm, which was bragging about server uptime a week and a half ago, shuts its doors for the afternoon, claiming “datacenter temperature issues beyond our control” required them to go offline. The outage began around 12:30 pm PST, so we’re at two hours and counting. Updates are on their Twitter account.

The twitter from May 20:

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