Skype offers users $1 for lost service, explains cause of outage
 

Skype experienced a significant outage last week when many of their supernodes failed. Today the company has provided a post-mortem of the issue on their blog. In a nutshell, Skype introduced hundreds of "mega-supernodes" to the infrastrucutre, realized that the system was not recovering quickly enough, so followed up by...

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