![]() ![]() ![]() We’re very sorry for the inconvenience and appreciate everyone’s patience.” “We’ve now resolved the issues and our systems are recovering. “Yesterday, as a result of a server configuration change, many people had trouble accessing our apps and services,” Facebook posted on its Twitter after the problem was fixed. Eventually, Facebook admitted to the issue and gave an explanation – though it was still vague, failing to explain both what happened and how the three different apps can be so closely tied together. That last time, no explanation was immediately obvious for the problems. Never before have we such a large scale outage.” “Our systems processed about 7.5 million problem reports from end users over the course of this incident. ![]() “By duration, this is by far the largest outage we have seen since the launch of Downdetector in 2012,” Tom Sanders, co-founder of Downdetector told Techcrunch at the time. That lasted for nearly an entire day, and was probably the biggest service failure in the history of the internet. Perhaps the most spectacular example of that was the previous outage of Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp in March. While the internet can appear as a process of visiting a variety of different places that seem not to be linked together at all, they are in fact held together by mostly invisible processes that mean they can simultaneously break. However, the scale of this outage – and of similar problems in the past – simply highlights the shared infrastructure that powers much of the web. ![]() On the face of it, there is nothing obvious to link the three different services, and each of them can be used individually. The three apps might appear to be run separately, even if they are all owned by the same company. ![]()
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