We might be looking at the first big Facebook outage folks. Today, at various times, the front page of Facebook has displayed:
- Your account is temporarily unavailable (7:00 AM EDT today).
- Facebook is upgrading.
- Facebook is temporarily unavailable. We're working on it…
And a few minutes ago DNS wouldn't resolve the site name altogether.
TechCrunch picked up on it at 10 PDT, but perhaps more interesting is this assertion that Facebook may been hacked. One thing is certain… you don't take your site offline in the middle of the day to do server upgrades. Whatever the reason — hacked, failed upgrade, dead servers — the tension must be excruciating in downtown Palo Alto at the moment.
Alec Saunders is the Vice President of Developer Relations for BlackBerry maker Research in Motion. This is his personal blog, with his personal viewpoints. Prior to this Alec was the CEO and co-founder of Calliflower — the easiest way to hold a meeting, online, on a conference call, or on the go. A double-decade veteran of product management and marketing, he spent nine years at Microsoft where he helped launch Windows 95, the first two versions of Internet Explorer, the Universal Plug and Play initiative, the push into home markets, opt-in email marketing and what might well go down in history as the very first direct email list ever.
