(Source: http://updates.smallbusiness.yahoo.com/)

Looking at their timeline, it took over 24 hours for them to finally say that the issue had been resolved – ouch!!

CNBC has a full story here on this issue that has generated quite a bit of angst among a certain segment online businesses (and another article here). Sounds like there are a *lot* of unhappy merchants this morning. Here’s a quote from a merchant that had SIX online stores that were down yesterday: “All of a sudden, the bedrock of our company has been replaced with quicksand. I guess its time to diversify our merchant platform.” (Tom DePrato, quoted in the CNBC story).

I’m not one of those unhappy merchants this morning, though…

My ecommerce software and hosting combination is rock-solid, and all of my online stores worked flawlessly as they processed more orders yesterday than any other day of the year. It’s been rock-solid each and every year, and I must admit I never gave it much thought — until I heard about the pain many of my fellow online merchants have been experiencing with other solutions.

So, I’d just like to take this opportunity to say…

“Thank You, ShopSite and Lexiconn!!”