Facebook downtime

[rpm]

Facebook down

A widespread outage appears to have hit Facebook, with many people reporting that they cannot access the popular social network

 

[abandonallhope]

Still infinitely better than Google+

 

[semaphore]

Still infinitely better than Google+

Both are equally ****.

 

[House]

Lol, sometimes not even the best technology, coders and data centers can prevent a site from tumbling over....

 

[abandonallhope]

Both are equally ****.

I don't think you understand me

 

[TelkomUseless]

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..

 

[S1ght]

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?

 

[Toitjie]

Sigh... and so it is back.

 

[genetic]

Sigh... and so it is back.

 

[kianm]

zodiac must have been the most affected i think