Facebook Apologizes for Outages, Says It Has Resolved 'Server Configuration' Error That Led To Access Problems (variety.com) 80
Facebook is sorry: The social media giant apologized for the technical errors that left many users globally unable to access apps for Facebook, Instagram, Messenger and WhatsApp starting Wednesday and stretching into Thursday, and said it's fixed the glitch. From a report: About 24 hours after users began reporting problems with Facebook, Instagram and other apps, Facebook announced Thursday -- on Twitter -- that it had resolved them and that its systems are "recovering." "Yesterday, as a result of a server configuration change, many people had trouble accessing our apps and services. We've now resolved the issues and our systems are recovering," the company said in a tweet. "We're very sorry for the inconvenience and appreciate everyone's patience."
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Facebook who?
Would you also like to brag to us about not owning a TV?
Why? (Score:2)
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I guess that's where people go when FB is down?
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Let me guess... (Score:1)
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LifeLog Cover Up (Score:1)
Server Configuration Error? ...
More like dumping all traces of the DARPA LifeLog program from their databases in an effort to cover their tracks
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If you ran a system as big as Facebook and designed it so a "configuration error" would bring down thousands of servers, you ought to be fired--now.
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Everyone knows LifeLog was killed off years ago.
Oh, wait, looks like LifeLog was stopped the very same day that Facebook was created ...
https://www.wired.com/2004/02/pentagon-kills-lifelog-project/
Facebook and Zuck are always sorry for something (Score:3)
yet nothing ever changes.
Also: /. is FB's availability page now? What gives?
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Also: /. is FB's availability page now? What gives?
The editors probably just piss away time on Facebook all day, which explains why the story was so timely. Typically I'm used to stuff taking a day or two to show up here, which isn't necessarily bad, but they had that story up right away. I think there was a previous time within the last year when the reported that Facebook was down. They might have been aware of it before someone managed to get the message to Zuck.
After the spaghetti link in an article summary the other day, it's pretty obvious that the
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The "editors", and I use the term loosely, have always been lazy fucks.
With the sheer number of dupes I've seen over ~20 years it is obvious they don't actually read the site let alone know how to do a basic search to see if a story has been already been posted before. But I guess that keeps the memes alive. /. has editors? LOL, yeah, right.
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Came for the stories, stayed for the user comments -- there have been some amazing gems over the years.
Why throw the baby out with the bathwater?
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Facebook announces new C level position, the CS(NS)O, the Chief Sorry (Not Sorry) Officer.
If they were ethical.... (Score:2, Funny)
If they had any ethics, they'd apologize for the service coming back up again.
This thing is a cancer on the internet.
Fragility of the the servers (Score:3)
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The ads pay for servers and allow for profits.
The ads won't pay for global redundant servers and the needed profits.
The servers are for selling ads not giving users redundant services.
Why is this news? Really!!! (Score:1)
I wasn't directly affected save for fellas around the office, who bitched over this relentlessly. I loathe FB with a passion.
I just wonder when it will go the way of MySpace. Can't wait.
And nothing of value was lost (Score:2)
I came here looking for the comment I stuck in the subject. I'm surprised that I haven't seen it.
"Server config error..." (Score:5, Insightful)
A "server configuration error" that prevents login and access issues happen to a small business with A rack of servers. NOT to one of the largest IT companies in the world. That would be an incredibly fast replication across how many globe-wide datacenters?
What happened? Who knows? The QAnon crowd has a DARPA / Lifelog / Building8 theory. Give that what credence you need to. Seems plausible to me (without too much tin-foil).
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I genuinely hope that we will get a detailed account of what happened. Something this big was likely more than an intern checking in a bad config file. While embarrassing for those involved, there is likely a good lesson to be learned. It would go a long way in improving my opinion of the company if they shared those lessons.
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I believe this is how it went down:
"Look, Mr Zuckerberg. Either you co-operate with our demands or we'll take you down."
"Oh yeah? What do you think you can do?"
(Fed takes a phone out of his pocket, hits Send)
(Zuck pulls out his phone, refreshes a couple of status pages, puts down phone)
(quietly) "Would you like that data dump scheduled hourly or daily, sir?"
New internet, who dis? (Score:2)
Hadn't even noticed until someone mentioned it yesterday in passing.
Maybe this is something old people care about?
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I was on ARPA before it was open
Re: A question (Score:3)
I believe the term is "Agile(tm) Continuous Delivery".
Facebook was down? (Score:2)
I couldn't care less.
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DO NOT Apologize! (Score:2)
Apologize for getting Facebook back online.
Now that Zuckerberg got it up again, the only question is how long he can keep it up.
Poor guy ... (Score:1)
... and what about Google? (Score:1)
Can we maybe get Google to fix Google Home integration with Android TV? /. for that matter.
Broken for weeks and not a peep from Google. Nor
Finally configured (Score:2)
They finally configured mod_evasive on their servers to protect against those pesky DDOS attacks! LOL!!!!
24 hours (Score:2)