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German news website Spiegel Online back online after crash

Xinhua, March 28, 2017 Adjust font size:

Internet users were unable to access the Spiegel Online website in the early morning on Tuesday when the site unexpectedly went down. The apparent cause of the crash was a faulty server. By late morning the site was back online.

The server was damaged during a storm when lightning struck, and part of the server infrastructure stopped functioning.

During the crash, Spiegel Online released a statement via their Facebook page to assure their readers that everything was being done to get the site up and run again as soon as possible. It used their social media pages to report important breaking news during the site reparations.

Der Spiegel is one of the biggest news providers in Germany and sold over 783,575 copies in 2016. About 92 percent of its readership remains within Germany, the newspaper and its online website is also read worldwide. Endit