Big outage for Facebook this morning

July 31st, 2007

By Justin Smith

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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12 Responses to “Big outage for Facebook this morning”

i7nvd Says:
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.
Clark Says:
July 31st, 2007 at 11:16 am
I’ve been having problems with logging in since yesterday evening.
Ryan Says:
July 31st, 2007 at 11:24 am
This is not good!
John Says:
July 31st, 2007 at 11:38 am
11:37 am PST and Facebook is STILL down. they did udate the “server down” page
Derek Says:
July 31st, 2007 at 11:39 am
its back up at 2:39 EST
John Says:
July 31st, 2007 at 11:39 am
BACK UP !!! @ 11:40am PST
Derek Says:
July 31st, 2007 at 11:49 am
is there anything new?
Sla Says:
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?
sean Says:
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
Will Says:
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?
Will Says:
August 3rd, 2007 at 7:02 am
But its loading in Safari OK… !
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