All of you must have experienced Facebook outage yesterday.
The site was completely down. Even the “Like” buttons scattered across the Web were not working, rendering they useless and causing loading error.
The problem, which was apparently due to a glitch in the Facebook’s network’s database software, was so bad that it left Facebook with no choice but shut down the entire site to fix it, according to the company’s official blog post.
“The key flaw that caused this outage to be so severe was an unfortunate handling of an error condition,” said Robert Johnson, Facebook’s director of software engineering the blog post, “An automated system verifying configuration values ended up causing much more damage than it fixed. The software designed to detect and fix errors backfired, and added to the original problem.
This is one of the worst outage of Facebook, since its inception.
Anyway, the problem is fixed now and most users are happily logged into their account as usual, but most advertisers may be pondering about the loss incurred due to the outage, for which Facebook has not mentioned anything.
On my end, Facebook was unavailable for around 2 hours. What about you?
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