[LINK] Facebookdown, #Instagramdown...

[Scott Howard]

What makes you think Facebook use "cloud storage"?

All Facebook data is stored on their own systems, in their own datacenters.

(Even if they did use external cloud storage, I'm not sure how an outage
"demonstrates is the false economy" of such storage?)

  Scott


On Wed, Mar 13, 2019 at 10:22 PM JLWhitaker <jwhit at internode.on.net> wrote:

> Facebook is back. Don't know about Instagram.
>
> What was weird was that saved items are behaving strangely. I can still
> see them when I log into FB via the web, but not when I log in via the
> app on my tablet. Must still be a sync problem. A friend had the
> opposite happen. Logging on via her computer (not sure what type) did
> NOT show her saved things. Or maybe her server just hadn't rebooted yet.
>
> One thing this demonstrates is the false economy of relying on cloud
> storage, even with behemoth companies like FB.
>
> Jan
>
> On 14/03/2019 2:23 PM, Marghanita da Cruz wrote:
> > Ofcourse, I don't expect Linkers to have been bothered by this...
> >
> >
> https://www.cnet.com/news/cant-update-status-facebook-and-instagram-are-down/
> >
> >
> > Marghanita
> >
>
>
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