Apple appeared to be having a few problems with its servers yesterday evening with the UK iTunes Store offline , along with iMessage and other cloud serving outages , including FaceTime and Game Centre , affecting users globally . Could the company ’s North Carolina data point centre have been hit by tropical tempest Sandy ?
In the UK , iTunes Store drug user reported that purchase subject matter would n’t play . We were determine onetime episode of Red Dwarf via an Apple TV at the clock time and witnessed the outage for ourselves with a message that read : “ The iTunes Store is presently unavailable . Try again after ” .
According to other reputation the iTunes Store and iTunes Match content was unprocurable no matter which gadget was used .
Also offline was iMessage , with : “ Some ” users affect , according to Apple . The company stake a System Status content claim : “ iCloud : FaceTime , iMessage – Users bear upon : Some . Users are live a problem with the service listed above . We are investigating and will update the condition as more info becomes available . ” That message suggested that the outage find between 13.30 and 15.25 PDT ( or 20.30 to 22.25 GMT ) . We ’d place the timing of our own iTunes outage at around 21.30 GMT . The company posted a message explaining the Game Centre outage at 15.50 PDT ( 22.50 GMT ) .
This is the second major outage in a calendar week . Apple also had a reduced iCloud help on 25 October , according to report . Apple also had an iMessage outage in September and a iCloud , App Store and FaceTime issue in August .
Apple now has iMessage back up and run , according to its situation at 22.54 GMT on 30 October .
There is some conjecture that Apple ’s North Carolina data middle may have been sham by Tropical Storm Sandy . According to write up , strong winds and fleshy snow battered parts of North Carolina on Tuesday .
The iTunes outage number almost at the same time as news show that Apple is pushing back the acquittance of iTunes 11 for another month .
You cancheck the scheme status of iCloud here .
