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Why Facebook Was Down on Thursday
If you’ve been wondering why Facebook was down on Thursday, you’re not alone. The company was hit by an outage on its main website on the same day, and the outage was rated a MODERATE risk to people, assets, and reputation. When it was first announced, a small team of workers in Santa Clara, California, was dispatched to the site to manually reset its servers. In the end, the site remained down for about two hours, and some employees called it the “equivalent” of a snow day.
Routers were wrongly configured
While the outage wasn’t a widespread problem, the outage was still a serious concern. Facebook employees couldn’t log into the offices, and their work passes were also unavailable. Facebook confirmed the outage was internal and not the result of a cyberattack, but it is unclear what the outage caused. The company hasn’t shared specific details about the outage, but reports from Twitter and Signal indicate that technical staff manually reset servers in California, where the problem originated.
A maintenance job taken out on Facebook’s backbone network caused it to go down, disconnecting data centers worldwide. However, because it wasn’t caught by an automated system, Facebook’s system took a long time to recover. The problem was tied to a change in the configuration of routers. This may interest you : What is Facebook Engagement and How Can You Increase It?. The routers were the primary point of connection to the Internet, and the outage caused a cascade of failures. In this scenario, a mistake on one of these routers could have caused the Facebook outage. The routers had to be physically disconnected in order to resolve the problem.
Program audit tool failed to stop command that caused outage
The six-hour outage that affected users around the world was caused by a software bug. It appears that engineers were unable to stop a command, which is intended to prevent accidental system shutdowns. This may interest you : One Simple Mistake That Caused Facebook to Go Down. The engineers were working on a global backbone – a network of thousands of miles of fiber-optic cables that connect the company’s various data centers around the world – when a command was accidentally executed that failed to stop.
The Facebook engineers responded by visiting their data centers onsite to fix the problem. Because of the high security at the data centers, they were able to make a successful restart. As a result, Facebook is back online. But it may have taken longer than they’d hoped to get back online. The company apologized for the inconvenience, and said that it is investigating the cause of the outage.
Mark Zuckerberg sold company to demons
The recent film ‘Facebook’ and its infamous founder have stirred up a lot of controversy and hatred for the founder of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, also known as ‘the Zuck’. In protest, he promised to leave the social network, but many others have followed suit. Many have predicted the end of Facebook, with governments setting their sights on neutering the social network. Read also : How to Block Facebook Accounts. Yet, Facebook continues to grow and attract millions of users.
While sitting in a conference room with the Congress, Zuckerberg dodged the most ridiculous questions and ducked as many as he could. His eyes were also an interesting topic of discussion. Observers compared him to anime characters, robots, sharks, and dolls. What’s worse, Zuckerberg is the tech industry’s version of the child actor. He has been growing up before our very eyes!
Mark Zuckerberg apologised for “disruption”
During the outage, Facebook’s internal network was affected and employees were locked out of offices. Employees were unable to use internal tools such as messaging and collaborate on meetings, because the system went down. The company apologised for the inconvenience and says that it is working to resolve the problem as soon as possible. The company says that the outage is caused by a network failure and that users can expect some disruption while the system is back up.
After the outage, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg apologised to millions of users, revealing that the outage had caused a “major problem” within the company. The cause of the outage was a faulty update and a faulty internal tool, which caused staff to lose access to company email and parts of their offices. The outage lasted for around six hours and has cost the social media giant $40bn in revenue, according to the Wall Street Journal.
