I’ve had half a dozen people in the last week tell me they were having troubles accessing the classifieds, and they were landing at this page instead of the normal Pennswoods.net Classifieds page. This is a caching issue caused by the Amazon outage I had a week ago.

If this is the case for you, the fix is to clear your browser’s cache. Your Internet Service Provider should be able to step you through this, or you might google it.

One of the links that came up for me, and looks reasonable though I haven’t tested it, is:
http://www.wikihow.com/Clear-Your-Browser%27s-Cache

In related news, Amazon has published a post-mortem on what happened on Oct 22. For those interested in the technical details, you can read them here:
https://aws.amazon.com/message/680342/

The short story is that Amazon performed a hardware maintenance that triggered a cascading number of servers to fail.

It is also interesting that this sort of thing reveals who else is using technology similar to Pennswoods.net. Netflix, Reddit, FourSquare, and TMZ all are hosting servers on Amazon.

Thanks,
Chris