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As a new sysadmin, it brings me comfort that even sites like facebook go down sometimes :)
by thethimble 12y ago
As a new sysadmin, it brings me comfort that even sites like facebook go down sometimes :)
- creativityhurts 12y agoMakes you feel happy you're not working at Facebook now :)
- dhwillem 12y agonothing wrong with a challenge !
- mattkrea 12y agoThis happens to everyone. Unfortunately, it's not a good enough excuse when, for example, the corporate sites I run go down. No application, desktop or web app, is truly bulletproof.
- gbog 12y agoOk, but some are more than others. Facebook is not famous for its outages, as far as I know.
- mattkrea 12y agoYou are correct as far as I know. Interestingly enough most of the troubles I used to have were with the absurd amounts of JavaScript on their site and failed XHRs--no full outages.
- dalore 12y agoBut they do have a liberal deploy policy which is to deploy all the time and fix issues later. Has bitten them before, but generally considered a good policy.
- uaygsfdbzf 12y agoThey have all your data. Keeping the site online would just cost money.