Saks, Sephora Sites Take Early Summer Crashes Wednesday
Written by Evan SchumanJune 24th, 2010
With summer barely two days old, two key E-tail sites—Saks Fifth Avenue and Sephora—opted to take afternoon siestas on Wednesday (June 23), site performance tracking firm Pingdom reported (and we confirmed).
Saks was down for about 90 minutes, coming back up about 4:15 PM (New York time). Given that those hours on a weekday would be an odd choice for scheduled maintenance, we asked Saks what was behind the Web absentia.
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