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Re: Facebook was down

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Post by sroerick »

eridius wrote: post #173
bombtrack wrote: post #92

Obviously anyone can "take credit" for things like this, but if this[1] is true, then jesus. Edit: Since it's topical, I enjoy listening to Chuck Rossi in interviews or presentations. Releng 2014 - Keynote 1: Chuck Rossi, Release Engineering, Facebook Inc. | Talks at Google [2] [1] https://twitter.com/lizardmafia/status/559963134006292481 [2] http://youtu.be/Nffzkkdq7GM?t=4m39s

I gotta say I'm finding it hard to accept their word that they're responsible for Facebook. I haven't paid much attention but I'm under the impression that they primarily just deal in DDoS's and other crude attacks, and I have a hard time imagining that they could cause a large enough DDoS to affect the massive juggernaut that is Facebook. Especially since Facebook just came back up and is now perfectly responsive an…

Um, snowstorm?

Re: Facebook was down

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Post by sandworm »

Update from Facebook:

"Current State: Fix Pushed

Facebook and Instagram experienced a major outage tonight from 22:10 until 23:10 PST. Our engineers identified the cause of the outage and recovered the site quickly. You should now see decreasing error rates while our systems stabilize. We don't expect any other break in service. I'll post another update within 30 mins. Thank you for your patience."

https://developers.facebook.com/status/issues/39399836411226...

Might not be a hack! Might just be weather in Boston:

"Akamai (provider for FB, Instagram and so on) claims to be down due to power outage. #LizardSquad claims to have hacked them. Get popcorn."

https://twitter.com/petterkarlsson/status/559975340526014464

Re: Facebook was down

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Post by semi-extrinsic »

jmtame wrote: post #59
RandallBrown wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I haven't seen Facebook go down in years. I wonder if this is going to be a big deal .

I'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.

For 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.

Re: Facebook was down

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Post by q_no »

together_us wrote: post #144
munirusman wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

$1.5M an hour!!! But considering this is not the peak time in North America, it's should be little less.

But here in India and the rest of Asia, people wake up to Facebook. You can't ignore that.

In Asia Facebook isn't that big, they also have other social services

Re: Facebook was down

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Post by benhamner »

sliverstorm wrote: post #167
jmtame wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'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.

$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.

$400 per second is about $13 billion per year

Re: Facebook was down

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Post by MasterScrat »

Untit1ed wrote: post #131
bombtrack wrote: post #92

Obviously anyone can "take credit" for things like this, but if this[1] is true, then jesus. Edit: Since it's topical, I enjoy listening to Chuck Rossi in interviews or presentations. Releng 2014 - Keynote 1: Chuck Rossi, Release Engineering, Facebook Inc. | Talks at Google [2] [1] https://twitter.com/lizardmafia/status/559963134006292481 [2] http://youtu.be/Nffzkkdq7GM?t=4m39s

Obviously Tinder falls with Facebook, but HipChat's definitely still working for me...

What is the connection between Tinder and Facebook?
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