Facebook Outage

Written By:

Martin Carter

Published On:

6 October 2021

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Should we laugh? Yes of course! But also read on…

So, Facebook has been offline – along with WhatsApp, Instagram and Oculus VR.

A chance for a harmless chuckle?

Not just at Facebook themselves, but at ourselves as we struggle to get by without these tools?

Absolutely!

We’ve collected some of our favourite memes here. Enjoy!

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This all shows that even for the third largest company in the world, and one who is undoubtedly tech-savvy, technical issues can occur. And for Facebook, the howls of anguish from disappointed users were immediate and worldwide.

But if something were to happen to your website or other critical IT, when would you first know about it?

Ask your website service provider about resilience, availability, and alerting, and their incident and problem management processes.

We’ll be doing a “Focus On…” post on these concepts soon, but a key one to think about today is availability – how much of the time is your site available to your visitors and potential customers?

If you’re an Enterprising IT customer, you’ll already know. Every site we host in our resilient UK data centres has its availability, speed and search performance reported back to you regularly. And with the MySiteMonitor service FREE with every website, we take care of all potential or current incidents and security threats, so you can relax.