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Re: Facebook Down: Victim of its Own Success?

Cynthia — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 00:24:33 -0000

It keeps on going and coming back...going and coming back...what the hell is the touble!?

Re: Facebook Down: Victim of its Own Success?

Dimitris — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 01:11:06 -0000

Cool.

Re: Facebook Down: Victim of its Own Success?

Constandinos — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 23:10:20 -0000

Cool.

Re: Facebook Down: Victim of its Own Success?

Vangelis — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 02:55:57 -0000

Nice!

Re: Facebook Down: Victim of its Own Success?

Dan — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 07:04:14 -0000

I agree with Nuno, facebook is visually very appealing over myspace, and will only grow expoentially at myspaces expense, but damn some of those applications are pointless and irratating. (apart from mine of course)

Re: Facebook Down: Victim of its Own Success?

Al — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 03:10:43 -0000

It was down for me June 29 from 8-10am CST and has been down June 30, from 2-3am CST.

Re: Facebook Down: Victim of its Own Success?

Craig — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 19:59:28 -0000

Yep.Facebook is down..5:00 PST. Most application sections are down. I guess we figured out the culprit long time ago.

I hope we don't get used to this.

Re: Facebook Down: Victim of its Own Success?

Nuno Teixeira — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 18:18:33 -0000

I'm in the group of people that sides with them fixing this due to the spamming issues (although it might very well be a scalability issue for sure). I fell in love with Facebook because of it's non-intrusive social networking usability. I'm a fan of leaving a "personal touch" on a profile page, but after being on MySpace for over a year and a half, hell, Facebook was a VERY comfortable place to rest (visually) and take a break from the visual catastrophe going on in the MySpace community.

I've only started to cringe with Facebook after receiving countless invitations to Apps I cared nothing about. The power of it all is both a brilliant move for community growth as well as another reminder that human spam is something that's innate in all of us and always a point of frustration when it comes to any form of online community :).

Re: Facebook Down: Victim of its Own Success?

Jeff C — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 17:29:31 -0000

I just created my own Facebook account so the service is apparently back to normal.

Re: Facebook Down: Victim of its Own Success?

IGNbash — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 17:06:25 -0000

Its amazing to me that a company as big as a Facebook doesn't have a Disaster recover plan for emergency situations like today? IPfailover or F5 solution to make sure that end users are not affected are great platforms for companies that rely on the internet.

Re: Facebook Down: Victim of its Own Success?

RYK — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 16:10:26 -0000

I had a strange experience where all Google sites were down day before yesterday for 6 - 8 hrs. I either got page not found or a custom message from Google. I also got some other N Am sites down but not Yahoo or Facebook. However didn't see any other reports about this.

Re: Facebook Down: Victim of its Own Success?

ANP — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 15:38:00 -0000

Um, Mercury's in retrograde. Facebook isn't the only site that's been down.

duh :)

Re: Facebook Down: Victim of its Own Success?

Matt Hicks — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 14:14:59 -0000

Hi Pete,

Some Facebook users were unable to login to their accounts this morning for about two hours due to a power issue in one of our data centers that affected the site. Site access has been fully restored.

Thanks,
Matt Hicks
Corporate Communications
Facebook

Re: Facebook Down: Victim of its Own Success?

RyanBarrett — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 13:42:57 -0000

Here's another tibdit...
MySpace is down too.
Coincidence?

Re: Facebook Down: Victim of its Own Success?

CrapCampus — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 12:59:41 -0000

I had all kinds of problems earlier with Facebook. The first thing that came to mind: "Yep, Facebook is indeed turning into Myspace."

Re: Facebook Down: Victim of its Own Success?

blossom — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 12:56:46 -0000

And I got stuck up here with mashable as Ted suggested and now it's my turn there to facebook...lol

Re: Facebook Down: Victim of its Own Success?

Robert Dewey — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 12:43:57 -0000

Good to know that we've got Facebook all figured out now... let's move on to the topic of HTML tags on Mashable ;-)

Re: Facebook Down: Victim of its Own Success?

Pete Cashmore — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 12:37:26 -0000

Ha, just came back up for me. I think this is the universal law of downtime: no matter how long you wait to write the post, the site will come back up less than one hour after.

Re: Facebook Down: Victim of its Own Success?

Pete Cashmore — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 12:35:12 -0000

You able to log in ok? Regions where down (from my mail):

US
UK
France
Other Europe

(Or could just depend what server your account is on).

Re: Facebook Down: Victim of its Own Success?

Simon Frerichs — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 12:33:06 -0000

No Problems here, too :)

Re: Facebook Down: Victim of its Own Success?

Jonathan Suchland — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 12:27:48 -0000

It is in fact down. I just tried it (11:25AM CST).

Here is the message I get:

Hey, your account is temporarily unavailable due to site maintenance. It should be available again within a few hours. We apologize for the inconvenience.

Re: Facebook Down: Victim of its Own Success?

Robert Dewey — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 12:13:02 -0000

BTW, Pete...

Can you fix the comment system so that it automatically insert HTML tags? When I post a comment and hit return for a new paragraph, it's not interpreted as such...

Best,

Robert

Re: Facebook Down: Victim of its Own Success?

Robert Dewey — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 12:10:59 -0000

I think it's a little of both... I signed up for Facebook, but after the whole F8 platform and widget spamming, I decided I would stick with my usual networking methods (e-mail, IM, and LinkedIn).

I still get invitations from people wanting to connect on Facebook... but since I'm no longer there, I guess that means they can't be related to me (lol).