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yesterday Google and today Facebook. My conspirator says it's the Chinese government showcasing.
"This usually means we're making an improvement to the database your account is stored on. While this process won't affect your account, you temporarily won't be able to access the site." https://www.facebook.com/help/134401680031995 I guess that this is all that I will get. Facebook is never down, it is just making improvements (like restarting the services to make them work again).
We've always been at way with Eastasia
All my funny cat videos and memes are loading fine. Did you try rebooting your router 62 times? All joking aside, is this news? :/
What manner of failure would cause such globally deployed and distributed systems to go down like this? I'm very interested to read up on this when they release details of the failure.
Could this be related to the storm? I was out shoveling, and came back in to my phone blowing up. Our systems at IronMountain (formerly Fortrust) in Denver all rebooted at once. These are all on redundant power, each systems redundant power supplies connecting to different circuits entering the cabinet, and those two circuits fed from 3 PDUs (two separate, one share). Each of those is supposed to be fed by a separate…
Do they do this to get around and 99.9% uptime agreements?
:/ Something fun happening in Germany? https://www.akamai.com/us/en/resources/visualizing-akamai/re... And Level3 traffic going to Argentina? https://twitter.com/bgpstream/status/1105819050968580096 And GreatBritain going to cambodia? https://bgpstream.com/event/197968
Google and FB having successive outages? Is this just a coincidence or is there some shared infrastructure that would explain this?
The only things that I can think of that would cause this scale of being down is either a T1 center outage or (conspiracy hat on) a major hack and everyone is rush patching Would be interesting to read the post mortem if there is any regardless