SunRocket suffered a major system-wide outage on Thursday and Friday that may have affected all of its 25K customers. Apparently, the company fell victim to strong subsriber growth and session border controllers that couldn't handle the growing traffic load. Light Reading has all the details of the VOIP-sphere's latest embarassement, which does little to help the credibility of the industry or SunRocket. You wonder if this is more evidence that carriers and cablecos are going to win the VOIP war because consumers will see them as more reliable. In particular, perhaps Bell Canada is on the right track with its hosted residential VOIP service that requires no equipment at a customer's house, back-up power or truck roll.

It shouldn't come as a big surprise that 800 people signed up for a free preview for a telephone course on how to make money from blogging. It's the next step, I guess, in the evolution of blogging as people go from doing it as a ego/branding/creative outlet exercise to something where they can make a few bucks. I think many people believe they can be like Darren Rowse, the fellow offering the course on tweaking Google AdSense who claims he makes more than $100K a year from blogging, but very, very few people are going to make a living from doing it. You have to give Rowse credit, however, for somehow convincing people to fork over $270 a pop for the course.
Mea culpa: This post has been edited to reflect the fact 800 people signed up for a free preview rather than the $270 course.