Facebook shows off its DIY Networking Gear. Facebook goes down.
Coincidence?
http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2014/06/18/facebook-shows-off-it...
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Not even possible. Once you delete something it stays on facebook for like weeks. They would have to have accidentally blown up everything with a bomb to have the problem you're talking about.
wat?
The don't actually delete your posts, they mark them as deleted. If the government requests your data they get to see everything, even those posts you decided to delete.
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#224Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is just one of the reasons you shouldn't build your business on someone else's platform - others include the possibility that they'll charge you for the service later, cut you out of a relationship with your own customers, shut you down for their own reasons, require you to use their services like a store to the exclusion of all others, copy your idea and crush you by giving it away for free, squeeze your margin…
What are you talking about? Everyone has to depend on some infrastruture to provide their service. I'd imagine pretty much every hosting platform (from amazon to dreamhost) has less reliability than facebook.
Sure, but the more external components you tie in to the bigger the chance that one of them will be down. So you try to keep such dependencies to an absolute minimum otherwise you end up with the joint downtime of all those services.
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#226Facebook was down? That's fantastic!
Hopefully people looked up from their devices and:
a) listened to birdsong
b) amazed at flowers and plants
c) initiated a conversation with someone in physical proximity
d) enjoyed what was going on instead of trying to snap a photo of it for facebook
e) all of the above
or
f) kept hitting "reload"...
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#227This is a very interesting event for the world: on a rough estimate, almost half a billion people are displaced right now. Where are all those man-minutes going to, now that facebook is down and they're not facing that iconic blue header bar on their browser? The downtime will surely end and it'll be back up again for sure, facebook has very smart people behind it, but this event will have served as a very interestin…
What? Displaced? The common man? Reality check, dude. Nobody is on Facebook constantly. It was down for about 30 minutes, tops. The "common man" just did whatever common men do for all those minutes when they're not on Facebook. Maybe, maybe not, they'll make up the slack later. Sure, someone was inconvenienced because they relied on being able to find some information or send a message on Facebook and couldn't, but…
I didn't use the word "common man" in an "elitist" context, I used it for avid users, which is a lot of people. Most people inside the tech world underestimate the role of facebook for a person who, all their friends, family and loved ones are using it on a daily basis.
I do agree that a lot of people, if not, everybody will not go crazy or be inconvenienced by a 30-minute downtime, not everyone is on it 24/7. I'm just saying I'm interested on where all those man-minutes went to for avid users.
Probably ringing on their neighbours' door, playing Xbox or having lunch with their family, etc.
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#228Why it was down?
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#229What if they accidentally deleted everything and don't have a backup?
If you mean all accounts + data I think a lot of users will just register again and start over.
If you mean all code it will be the end of Facebook.
But ofcourse this is never going to happen.
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#230finaly..