On the 4th of April contractors working on the Olympics Venue project in East London bored through a major Telstra fibre optic system, taking down many Telstra services and services of Telsra's competitors.
Story
here.
Unfortunately it looks like one of the world's largest job board networks, Jobserve has been caught up in the outage, including their much touted
JobG8 job distribution network.
Jobserve.co.uk,
Jobserve.com.au and
Jobserve.com all appear to be down today, some 2 days after the accident first occured.
Jobserve.co.uk is the UK's leading IT job board so an outage like this must be devastating.
Unfortunately for local Australian job boards who are using the JobG8 network for job content their jobs all appear to be affected with the "apply now" button leading to a page load error or timeout.
Example
Unfortunately this is one of the major downsides of third party job content providers. If you run a job board and your content provider goes down then through no fault of your own, your jobs also go offline.
