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I don't know if it has something to do with the 5th of November, but Facebook was down for me for around 4 minutes at 1am (-5 GMT). Facebook mobile, iPhone app, facebook.com everything was down.

Even downforeveryoneorjustme.com said it was down :O

Anyone noticed it too?
 
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You mightn't know this but all these large sites have downtime. I read an article on this fairly recently and going by memory I think Gmail averages 5 minutes of downtime a month. Microsoft is a lot lot worse. Amazons EC2 cloud regularly goes down. The thing is it only affects certain areas. For example I remember a power shortage or electricity sub station brought down Amazons EC2 cloud recently but only in the west coast of US. The downtime is usually localized. If Facebook was down in certain areas I wouldn't pass any attention on it.
 
Mr Happy said:
You mightn't know this but all these large sites have downtime. I read an article on this fairly recently and going by memory I think Gmail averages 5 minutes of downtime a month. Microsoft is a lot lot worse. Amazons EC2 cloud regularly goes down. The thing is it only affects certain areas. For example I remember a power shortage or electricity sub station brought down Amazons EC2 cloud recently but only in the west coast of US. The downtime is usually localized. If Facebook was down in certain areas I wouldn't pass any attention on it.
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let us know if you can find that again. I'd like to see it
 
Jesse said:
let us know if you can find that again. I'd like to see it
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I'll have a look this evening for it. I'm interested myself in re-finding it. It was around early September as it also contained info about Microsoft's Cloud Downtime and Google's Document Cloud downtime as well as various Amazon EC2 outages as they all seamed to happen in a few days of each other.

This is even more offtopic but I've just made a mini discovery for myself.
The reason I was interested in the article at the time was Apple had recently complete one of the worlds largest server farms. At the time nobody knew what Apple were planning to do with this large new building but I've just discovered they obviously use it to power the new Siri that's on the new iPhone 4S. That's another thing that's having a lot of downtime in the last week.
 
Kedzi said:
I don't know if it has something to do with the 5th of November, but Facebook was down for me for around 4 minutes at 1am (-5 GMT). Facebook mobile, iPhone app, facebook.com everything was down.

Even downforeveryoneorjustme.com said it was down :O

Anyone noticed it too?
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dude you got any screenshot?
 
maybe, it has been hacked by the ANONYMOUS Team? There were thread on wj and other boards saying; they would hack facebook on the 5 november 2011... O_o
 
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