Technical Issues Plague eBay's Web Hosting Service ProStores

eBay sellers reported an outage at ProStores, eBay's web-hosting service, on Tuesday. Sellers who host their stores on ProStores reported their sites went down for about two hours beginning at 3:30 pm EST on Tuesday. Earlier in the day, the secure pages on a number of ProStores experienced timeout errors. ProStores announced it identified an issue with the traffic load balancer and deemed the problem resolved in the afternoon, before the subsequent outage. ProStores had an outage two days before Christmas, and Lin Shearer, Senior Manager and Head of Marketing and Revenue for ProStores addressed the technical problems that