I experienced a facebook outage yesterday afternoon (-03:00 UTC) although the DNS resolved the facebook I could not ping their IP addresses. As you can read in facebook's twitter timeline.
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Facebook is our biggest traffic source after Google. I'm inclined to forgive them for occasional outages.
PPC? CPM?
Not ads. We post links to people who like us on Facebook, and we also get traffic from people who share our articles with their friends.
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#93It's hard to overstate the damage this is causing for merchants that prominently display FB like on their pages - lots of big ugly blank spaces / errors out there. Realize this is temporary but shows why if you install any external vendor tool as a part of your site make contingency plans that switch on errors.
for like buttons you should iframe them (same for anything from a third-party service) facebook uptime has been good overall, considering they doubled in size in 12 months to 550m users
Even iframed, you end up with an ugly "service unavailable" blot of text.
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There are more principled ways to do that than a blacklist, though, like looking at current frequency compared to typical frequency. That way even something commonly mentioned could still genuinely be trending if it gets mentioned much more than usual on a particular day. (It's possible there are scale-related reasons that make this infeasible, though.)
Just not tracking the frequency of the most common words that will never be in the trending topics is probably a big performance win. I'm sure there is an additional blacklist that includes stuff like "and" and "the".
You know you've made it when your brand name is a stopword.
Re: Facebook Down, Like Buttons Vanish, Internet Implodes
#95It's hard to overstate the damage this is causing for merchants that prominently display FB like on their pages - lots of big ugly blank spaces / errors out there. Realize this is temporary but shows why if you install any external vendor tool as a part of your site make contingency plans that switch on errors.
Or people who rely on Facebook for shared login...that must be down as well.
Well frankly, If you rely on some other business for such critical functionality, you deserve to lose.
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#96cauliflower farms everywhere are withering for lack of water.
The first 10 times I read this comment, I thought it was a pun on facebook's color scheme, until I realized that it's cornflower blue, not cauliflower blue.
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#97cauliflower farms everywhere are withering for lack of water.
Please don't downvote me. I am not a native speaker. But I still don't get it. Someone care to explain ;-)
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Or people who rely on Facebook for shared login...that must be down as well.
Well frankly, If you rely on some other business for such critical functionality, you deserve to lose.
Unfortunately its difficult to avoid relying on other businesses for crucial systems.
Example: Payment Processing, try building a business, especially an online one, without depending on Paypal, or at least Mastercard/Visa.
Sure you can reduce it by say not having FB Connect as the only log-on option but the simple fact is that you will almost always have to depend on other businesses, the best you can do is diversify and hope for the best.
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#100Earlier quoted context omitted.
Well frankly, If you rely on some other business for such critical functionality, you deserve to lose.
Unfortunately its difficult to avoid relying on other businesses for crucial systems. Example: Payment Processing, try building a business, especially an online one, without depending on Paypal, or at least Mastercard/Visa. Sure you can reduce it by say not having FB Connect as the only log-on option but the simple fact is that you will almost always have to depend on other businesses, the best you can do is diversif…
Exactly...people made this same argument a few years back when Amazon S3 went down for a few hours. Just have a few different options, and the chance that they will all be down at the same time is pretty slim.