Anonymous ID: b2ccbe March 13, 2019, 4:02 p.m. No.5666984   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun

What today links Gmail, Google Drive, YouTube, Facebook, Instagram โ€“ apart from being run by monopolistic personal data harvesters?

They all fell over, fears of massive DDoS denied

 

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/03/13/google_facebook_outage/

 

Best partโ€ฆ

 

But wait, cloud monitoring outfit ThousandEyes tells us it was all down to unfortunate internal failures at the social media giants.

 

"The cause would appear to be internal rather than a network or internet delivery issue," a spokesperson said. "For example, we saw '500 internal server errors' from Facebook. Given the sheer scale and continuous changes that these web scale providers are constantly making to their applications and infrastructure, sometimes things break as a result of these changes, even in the most capable hands."