Click here to RSVP to WHIR Events: Denver – Aug 26, 2010 Phoenix – Sept 23, 2010 Washington, DC – Oct 21 Five Most Recent Posts News: VMware Unveils Virtual Email and Collaboration Appliance News: American Eagle Site Suffers Unusual Multi-Day Outage News: Cloud Firm Voxel Expands Service Across Equinix Data Centers News: Bobcares Unveils On-the-Go Server Monitoring App for iPhone OS News: Rackspace Offers Cloud Servers for Windows (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Major clothing store American Eagle Outfitters ( www.ae.com ) suffered an outage late last month, which sources say can be attributed to outsourced managed hosting, despite reportedly well-laid recovery plans for just such a disaster. American Eagle’s online shops, ae.com, aerie.com and 77kids.com, crashed on July 19, and remained offline until July 23, when many of the pages became available, but sluggish, until the afternoon July 27, when the sites were restored to normal, reported industry news site StorefrontBacktalk . An unnamed source involved in the probe told StorefrontBacktalk that the outage, involved unusual storage failures with IBM’s hosting, and to make matters worse, contingency plans fell through with the Oracle backup utility not functioning as expected.