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I restarted my modem and router two times before I realized that the network was fine and that it was just Facebook that was down. Props to their ops team for u
by djacobs 12y ago
I restarted my modem and router two times before I realized that the network was fine and that it was just Facebook that was down. Props to their ops team for uptime that is so reliable.
- RandallBrown 12y agoI haven't seen Facebook go down in years. I wonder if this is going to be a big deal.
- jmtame 12y agoI'm wondering how much revenue gets lost every minute that Facebook is down. It has to be in the tens of thousands. Edit: someone wrote this below in the comments, which came to $400 per second of downtime. Ouch.
- sliverstorm 12y ago$400 per second somehow seems... smaller than I would have thought. Their opex on a per second basis has got to be orders of magnitude higher than that.
- benhamner 12y ago$400 per second is about $13 billion per year
- semi-extrinsic 12y agoFor comparison, the cost of downtime for a single oil rig is on the order of $100 per second. Petrobras, as an example, operates 70 rigs and has a market cap of $125 billion. Facebook has a market cap of $216 billion. (source for cost: Cormorant Alpha shutdown in 2013) Edit: misplaced parenthesis => my first number was way off, $70 000 vs $100. Redid analysis, made mental note not to do math before coffee intake.
- mjrpes 12y agoThat seems a tad... high. $70,000 = $2 trillion a year, assuming 24/365 usage. Total value of all oil produced in the world (assuming $50/barrel) is roughly $1.4 trillion a year.
- omni 12y agoYou're off by an order of magnitude, 70 * 100 = $7,000, not $70,000.
- timmaxw 12y agohttp://www.offshoreenergytoday.com/cormorant-alpha-shutdown-costs-10-mln-per-day-uk/ http://www.offshoreenergytoday.com/cormorant-alpha-shutdown-... estimates that the Cormorant Alpha shutdown cost $10,000,000/day, or about $100/second. That figure comes from multiplying the oil production (90,000 barrels/day) by the oil price ($110/barrel). Where did you get the $70,000/second figure from?
- semi-extrinsic 12y agoGah, misplaced a parenthesis. You are correct. I shouldn't do math before I've had coffee.
- sroerick 12y agoFacebook went down less than a year ago for a couple hours.
- obituary_latte 12y agoRestarting your modem is step 1 in troubleshooting internet connectivity problems when Facebook is down?
- code_duck 12y agoIt wasn't stated that that was the first thing he tried. I've experienced router/modem issues where only certain sites were inaccessible until one or both pieces of equipment were restarted. I'd be interested in knowing exactly what happens to a router's software to make that happen.
- saraid216 12y agoI'd spitball a guess that it has to do with the firewall rules on the modem or router running themselves into a bad state. That would explain why a restart fixes it, since the state would be cleared.
- jorkro 12y agoThat can be caused by a variety of issues. From the top of my head, I would investigate broken DNS caches and incorrect MTU settings.
- IvyMike 12y agoIt's almost like he mentioned it because he realized it was silly after the fact and wanted to share that bit of mirth with us.
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- obituary_latte 12y agoOr Facebook is just that important. We will never know for sure.