Facebook begins coming back online after a lengthy outage.

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: New York Times

Facebook and its family of apps — including Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger and Oculus — began flickering back online late Monday, after being down for more than five hours and disrupting the digital lives of billions of its users.

A Facebook spokesman confirmed that the services were slowly coming back online, but cautioned that it would take some time for the services to stabilize. Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and other apps owned by the social network went down on Monday at around 11:40 a.m. Eastern time.

It was highly unusual to have so many apps go dark from the world’s largest social media company at the same time. More than 3.5 billion people use Facebook and its apps to communicate with one another and conduct business. Facebook employees also were cut off from email, internal communication tools, and physical access to building sites because of the outage.

The company did not disclose the cause of the outage. Security experts said the problem most likely stemmed instead from a misconfiguration of Facebook’s server computers, which were not letting people connect to its sites like Instagram and WhatsApp.


Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/04/technology/facebook-back-online.html

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Short article.

[BigmanPigman]

1. Cause of the outage...

Karma baby, Karma.

Quel dommage

[HelpImSurrounded]

2. +infinity

😂😂😂😂😂

[BumRushDaShow]

4. I always try to avoid doing computer-related stuff

the couple days before the end of the month or couple days after the beginning of the month - especially when you are talking a calendar year beginning/ending of the "quarter" time of year (January/April/June/October).

The timing is highly suspicious otherwise.

[NotHardly]

8. Shut it up and down permanently ... Mark does not need the money

... he's got your money and your cousins... how much more does the little bastard need? I mean, he's already bought Hawaii.

[spike jones]

3. Boy, that was scary!

[Ocelot II]

5. Well, Mercury is in retrograde, so what did we expect?

[BumRushDaShow]

6. The New Moon is October 6th

so there's that.

[OldBaldy1701E]

14. And this is through December!?! (n/t)

[Ocelot II]

15. No, just until Oct. 18.

[OldBaldy1701E]

19. My mate

mentioned that with Mars in retro and Saturn doing something this instability would last through December. I will need to ask him again about that.

[Tetrachloride]

7. The consequences of being cheap

Or, don’t be cheap and do the following:

1. Before messing around at high end, do 3x backups. At least one of those is stored off-site.

2. Do a virtual machine test. this will be a lot of computers but a drop in the bucket for FB.

3. Do a real machine test, similar to Step 2.

4. Have backups standing by either to reinstall or take over as main server.

5. do the actual upgrade

6. bonus: the owner doesn’t lose billions in estimated net worth

[abqtommy]

9. This just goes to show that it's true that nothing good ever lasts! nt

[Mr.Bill]

10. In a related matter,

office productivity went up by 40% today.

[groundloop]

11. Nice try, but I bet everyone wasted just as much time bitching about facebook being down.....

[BumRushDaShow]

13. That too

although they are often the type who is quick to find anything to bitch about and facebook becomes a temporary pacifier... until they start arguing on it.

[BumRushDaShow]

12. ...

[twodogsbarking]

16. They were on hold with Comcast aka

Xfinity.

[Snoopy 7]

17. Don't forget

Last time this happened FB lost all kind of information that Congress needed when questioning zukaberg. Now there’s a whistleblower what will disappear now?

[BumRushDaShow]

18. That was my thought

along with them suddenly deciding to "fix" their "algorithm" after being "caught".

I don't have any facebook account (was never interested) but it will be interesting to see if suddenly something "changes" (at least temporarily - I guess in terms of what people who use it have reported about what pops up as a "suggested" or "recommended" or whatever term they use, news or story item being promoted and pushed).

[godfree2]

20. skin Facebook alive

[twodogsbarking]

21. The world's largest religion.