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dgabriel
No one has anything else to do tonight, I guess.
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webo
It doesn't help to link to the website when it is already down.
jtreminio
Traffic sent from HN is but a drop in a bucket the size of a dump truck for facebook.
evjan
Instagram as well
bhaai
Looks like they share some infrastructure with facebook. Whatsap web and app works though :)
abm91
Welp...that escalated quickly.
brunorsini
yes. the fact that it feels so weird is testimony to their server eng team
daeken
It really is. Facebook is far from bug-free, but I'm a near-constant user and this is the first time in a long time that I can recall it going down completely. I'll be really surprised if it lasts more than an hour, at most.
th0br0
Even the fbcdn / akamai part seems to be down (an error occured while processing your request) ... funny
vanadium
According to Twitter, Facebook falling in the dead of night does in fact make (about a few million) sounds.
jedrek
There is no dead of the night on a platform with users all over the world. Maybe when it's midday over the pacific, but not even then.
vanadium
Let's suspend disbelief in the name of a stretch joke.
dnohr
Yep, it's down here in SE Asia too
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flaie
Akamai, the CDN used by Facebook went down before Facebook for me this morning: http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/akamaihd.net
lewi
Seems to be effecting Instagram as well. I assume they both use Akamai then.

Was using both when they became unresponsive, resetting routers all over the shop.

clarkm
Looking through the customer list, most other sites seem to be working fine:

http://www.akamai.com/html/customers/customer_list.html

I wonder what makes FB and Instagram different?

flaie
It was specifically fbstatic-b-a.akamaihd.net which was also not responsive, preventing css & js to load rendering a completely broken page on my browser.
fivedogit
Akamai has several different networks, one for streaming media, one for regular http, and one for https. They also have an S3-like storage system and a DNS service. Some customers are configured with several of these offerings at once, so it's hard to know which, if any, experienced problems and led to the outages.

Honestly, I doubt it was an Akamai issue. If Akamai experienced network problems, dozens or hundreds of sites would be affected. If an Akamai config issue (ie human error) were to blame, then it would probably only affect one site, not several. Neither FB nor Akamai is dumb enough to push multiple site changes at once.

dnohr
Yes, it's also down in SE Asia