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Facebook is down

34 points by rabidonrails 13y ago

I've been trying to log on but...

mflindell 13y ago
You are correct, congrats on posting this to a HN.
ialex 13y ago
Same here in mexico it seems down
audeyisaacs 13y ago
Down for me in Australia. Twitter confirms. https://twitter.com/search?q=facebook%20down https://twitter.com/search?q=facebook%20down Their "Sorry, something went wrong." page is copyright 2012. 01:18GMT - Seems to be loading every now and then. 01:25GMT - Loading consistently. -- http://developers.facebook.com/live_status http://developers.facebook.com/live_status Says facebook is healthy. You can see a spike in response time and drop in error rates(hehe) in the graphs at the bottom of the page.
mkr-hn 13y ago
It was very slow a moment ago.
alcuadrado 13y ago
Down in Argentina
taeric 13y ago
Same for me.
ikkiChung 13y ago
Same in Taiwan.
ncphillips 13y ago
Down in Prince Edward Island, Canada
lettergram 13y ago
it's back fyi, at least for me
deleted 13y ago
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mrmaddog 13y ago
One of the things I remember from an internship there a few years ago, Facebook does its main "push" of new code to its server farms on Tuesdays around 5pm (i.e. around this time). It would be interesting to read a postmortem on what brought down the most visited site on the world—was it an image staging issue? A latent bug in the product? A badly configured setting? A malicious attack? A network problem? Hopefully Facebook Eng will do a write-up on the root cause!
- seldo 13y ago
  I thought Facebook did daily/continuous pushes? Or did that end?
  - achalv 13y ago
    Stuff is pushed every day, but the biggest chunks are pushed on Tuesdays. Source: Friend who interned at FB.
    - mrmaddog 13y ago
      Exactly. You can find more information here: https://developers.facebook.com/support/beta-tier/ https://developers.facebook.com/support/beta-tier/ "Every week, usually on Sunday evenings, we stage our weekly push, which happens on Tuesday evenings, on the beta tier. This provides ourselves and developers 48 hours to test and find bugs before the build hits production. After Tuesday, while the beta tier is continuously updated with hotfix patches which are queued up for the daily hotfix release, the production tier is updated with the hotfix push in the evenings, Pacific Standard Time"
      - achalv 13y ago
        Ah, makes sense. Thanks!
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guiomie 13y ago
Down on Ellesmere Island, Canada (not Jurassic Park).
greghinch 13y ago
Would be quite interested to hear any sort of postmortem on this in light of recent news around FB...
rcruzeiro 13y ago
It's back but it is extremely slow...
tucif 13y ago
I wonder if this is anyhow related to the malicious activity from Tor nodes they reported today.
technifreak 13y ago
Use http://beta.facebook.com http://beta.facebook.com
kmicklas 13y ago
Facebook seems to have major reliability issues in general for me. At least once a day the site will not load for several minutes, despite my connection being fine. I also seem to be the very last person to get every new feature, e.g. graph search, hashtags, feelings on statuses, etc. (I don't yet have any of those...)

Facebook is down

34 points by rabidonrails 13y ago

I've been trying to log on but...

mflindell 13y ago

You are correct, congrats on posting this to a HN.

ialex 13y ago

Same here in mexico it seems down

audeyisaacs 13y ago

Down for me in Australia. Twitter confirms. https://twitter.com/search?q=facebook%20down https://twitter.com/search?q=facebook%20down Their "Sorry, something went wrong." page is copyright 2012. 01:18GMT - Seems to be loading every now and then. 01:25GMT - Loading consistently. -- http://developers.facebook.com/live_status http://developers.facebook.com/live_status Says facebook is healthy. You can see a spike in response time and drop in error rates(hehe) in the graphs at the bottom of the page.

mkr-hn 13y ago

It was very slow a moment ago.

alcuadrado 13y ago

Down in Argentina

taeric 13y ago

Same for me.

ikkiChung 13y ago

Same in Taiwan.

ncphillips 13y ago

Down in Prince Edward Island, Canada

lettergram 13y ago

it's back fyi, at least for me

deleted 13y ago

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mrmaddog 13y ago

One of the things I remember from an internship there a few years ago, Facebook does its main "push" of new code to its server farms on Tuesdays around 5pm (i.e. around this time). It would be interesting to read a postmortem on what brought down the most visited site on the world—was it an image staging issue? A latent bug in the product? A badly configured setting? A malicious attack? A network problem? Hopefully Facebook Eng will do a write-up on the root cause!

seldo 13y ago
I thought Facebook did daily/continuous pushes? Or did that end?
- achalv 13y ago
  Stuff is pushed every day, but the biggest chunks are pushed on Tuesdays. Source: Friend who interned at FB.
  - mrmaddog 13y ago
    Exactly. You can find more information here: https://developers.facebook.com/support/beta-tier/ https://developers.facebook.com/support/beta-tier/ "Every week, usually on Sunday evenings, we stage our weekly push, which happens on Tuesday evenings, on the beta tier. This provides ourselves and developers 48 hours to test and find bugs before the build hits production. After Tuesday, while the beta tier is continuously updated with hotfix patches which are queued up for the daily hotfix release, the production tier is updated with the hotfix push in the evenings, Pacific Standard Time"
    - achalv 13y ago
      Ah, makes sense. Thanks!
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guiomie 13y ago

Down on Ellesmere Island, Canada (not Jurassic Park).

greghinch 13y ago

Would be quite interested to hear any sort of postmortem on this in light of recent news around FB...

rcruzeiro 13y ago

It's back but it is extremely slow...

tucif 13y ago

I wonder if this is anyhow related to the malicious activity from Tor nodes they reported today.

technifreak 13y ago

Use http://beta.facebook.com http://beta.facebook.com

kmicklas 13y ago

Facebook seems to have major reliability issues in general for me. At least once a day the site will not load for several minutes, despite my connection being fine. I also seem to be the very last person to get every new feature, e.g. graph search, hashtags, feelings on statuses, etc. (I don't yet have any of those...)