Report: Facebook Outage Caused by ‘Database Overload’ as Users Still Report Problems

Report: Facebook Outage Caused by ‘Database Overload’ as Users Still Report Problems
A number of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp users have said the websites are down. Downdetector
Jack Phillips
Jack Phillips
Breaking News Reporter
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After Facebook suffered its worst outage in recent memory, the social media giant reportedly blamed the problem on a “database overload.”

A source told NBC Bay Area news anchor Raj Mathai on March 13 that the database got “overloaded,” and “we are racing to spin up new machines as others go down.”

Jack Phillips
Jack Phillips
Breaking News Reporter
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