Nearly 86 Hours Later, Cydia Service Back Online
April 25, 2011
Jailbreak fans can relax: Cydia is back online. After 86 hours of downtime, the software application is back, according to Cydia creator Jay Freeman, who posted the message on Twitter.
During the downtime, Cydia customers had a difficult time making new purchases and managing their Cydia accounts.
Cydia, which relies on Amazon’s cloud computing services, began having problems on Thursday. It was then Amazon’s East Coast data facility began having problems, which shutdown a number of popular sites. These included Reddit, FourSquare, and Hootsuite.