Magento Sites Go Down if Magentocommerce.com Goes Down
Apr 17, 2009 · 1 minute readCategory: magento
It looks like Magento sites have a weakness where they throw a fatal error on the admin side if they can not connect to the Magentocommerce site to check for updates.
I will post the solution to this shortly, but Magento - please make sure this is fixed ASAP.