Big outage for Facebook this morning
July 31st, 2007
| By Justin Smith | 12 Comments » |
I’ve had no access for the last hour and, “We’re upgrading. We’ll be back soon.” is all that’s on the landing page. Two thoughts:
1) As a Facebook app developer dependent on Facebook reliability, this really sucks, and
2) Facebook should build a more informative and transparent “server down” page.
Update: The outage continues at 11:16am PT, putting this one in the “major” category. (We received our first report that the site was down at 8:58am PT this morning.)
Update: Facebook is back up at 11:30am PT.
Update: We’ve heard several reports of security issues at Facebook overnight. If true, I’m guessing it was more likely a botched push then malicious attack. Since the site has come back online this morning all Facebook links have a tracking code that wasn’t there yesterday, making me think something went awry when Facebook was pushing changes last night.

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July 31st, 2007 at 11:06 am
This is driving me nuts! I was right in the middle of a game on the Mafia app when it froze up on me. Post again if you find out what’s going on.
July 31st, 2007 at 11:16 am
I’ve been having problems with logging in since yesterday evening.
July 31st, 2007 at 11:24 am
This is not good!
July 31st, 2007 at 11:38 am
11:37 am PST and Facebook is STILL down. they did udate the “server down” page
July 31st, 2007 at 11:39 am
its back up at 2:39 EST
July 31st, 2007 at 11:39 am
BACK UP !!! @ 11:40am PST
July 31st, 2007 at 11:49 am
is there anything new?
July 31st, 2007 at 12:27 pm
it is 15:25 EST and the darn thing won’t come up on my Mac …. ??? any idea when is the upgrade about to finish?
July 31st, 2007 at 8:52 pm
all day i cannot access it through firefox, and i still cannot, but i have no problem connecting through internet explorer? i get the dumb “we’ll be back soon” msg in firefox, but nothing in IE? wtf
August 3rd, 2007 at 6:59 am
FB down on Aug 3 now – in Firefox I get “Upgrading back soon…” and in Explorer I get “Incompatible browser…”
Is FB going down for good by slow degrees?
August 3rd, 2007 at 7:02 am
But its loading in Safari OK… !
August 12th, 2007 at 2:14 am
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