… But whenever it happened, the outage typically lasted 12 to 24 hours. If it were the weekend, the outage could last even longer. Every outage was a reminder that everything in the house depended on a single point of failure. …
… This issue follows a platform outage from back in early July . …
… The outage has hit digital and some physical discs that require online authentication, showing why always-online is a risky requirement. This is the second major outage this week; Xbox engineers say they're actively working to mitigate it. …
… People are also rushing to social media to inform others and share their experiences, with many expressing frustration over the repeated outages. …
… The last outage lasted multiple days, from 2025-08-12 through 2025-08-15. …
… On top of that, the outages also took down my access to my homelab. …
… Even without a dual BIOS feature, nearly every modern motherboard has safeguards in place to recover from a power outage during a BIOS update. And if you're really, really worried, you can always plug your PC into a UPS so it's safe from a power outage while flashing a new BIOS. …
… A primary outage still fails over cleanly to either backup. But a carrier-wide outage would take out the secondary ISP and the phone simultaneously. …
… More than once, I've been convinced there was an outage on my end, only to face the prospect of sitting in a queue for half an hour before a technician inevitably asked me to restart my computer and turn the router off and then on again. …
… Start with read-only reviews of sanitized config files, then treat any suggested fixes as proposals to be approved manually. The point is to catch drift and weak spots before they become outages, not to hand your home lab a robot with root access and a flashlight. …