Facebook downtime

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A widespread outage appears to have hit Facebook, with many people reporting that they cannot access the popular social network
 
Lol, sometimes not even the best technology, coders and data centers can prevent a site from tumbling over....
 
Lol, sometimes not even the best technology, coders and data centers can prevent a site from tumbling over....

why would it be different than a car, a house , a bicycle, human body..? Everything breaks/tumbles over once in a while. Everything is man made, which means it can stop working anytime..
 
Lol, sometimes not even the best technology, coders and data centers can prevent a site from tumbling over....

What I don't understand is, surely they wouldn't have a single point of failure? I mean companies of this side are surely running a distributed architecture so there would have to be a multitude of issues in order to completely break it?
 
zodiac must have been the most affected i think:p
 
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