What Jeff Bezos says about alexa downtimes ?

from 2/3/2008 till today I was getting the stats for 1/31/2008.
finally they deliver stats today but with a mystery 1wk Avg. and 3 mos. Avg. drop.

I've noticed Alexa drop but not only for my site.


Still, the intensity and length of the performance problems affecting Alexa's Web site, as documented by Pingdom, are jarring at a time when Amazon.com's Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Jeff Bezos has heavily promoted the company's hosted IT infrastructure services for developers at public appearances and press interviews.

Bezos sang the praises of Amazon services like Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and Simple Storage Service (S3) at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco two weeks ago and at the Emerging Technologies Conference at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in September. S3 and EC2 have become quite popular because they let developers lease storage space and computing capacity from Amazon over the Web, providing them with an option to having to buy expensive hardware, Bezos has said.

This month, BusinessWeek magazine ran a story about this topic and put Bezos on the cover.

The Alexa division offers four hosted services designed to let developers build Web sites and applications based on Alexa's Web index and data. "Users can access Web site traffic data, related links, contact information, as well as a powerful search engine based on the Alexa crawl, and a wide variety of other functionality and data," according to a page on Amazon.com's Web site. http://www.itworld.com/Man/3909/061122alexa/

I appreciate your frustrations, as I like you and many other webmasters use Alexa for stats. But why are you so bothered. It's only an indicator at best.

Are you just making a point about how lame Amazon and their infrustructure is???

Man -- that's serious... did you call FEMA?

As I understand they will start Disaster Relief for Alexa if enough people are genuinely concerned about their loses.