#facebookcrashes

What has caused the outage?

Facebook has suffered an outage yesterday. This affected millions of users worldwide, and traffic to the social media giant has fallen off a cliff. According to at least one source, the outage was caused by a ‘server configuration change.’ It’s not clear if that means the configuration change was made by Facebook itself, or if something happened to the servers that Facebook uses. Another source claims it was an internal code change that caused the problem. Many users are seeing the following message when they try to access the site: This site can’t be reached